The Law Of Ishmael And The Destruction Of Planet Earth

The boundaries between maintenance and the expansion of humanity should be known clearly by everyone, because nature is so unpredictable yet fragile that we should not be continuing to develop and expand blindly. One individual who shares such sentiment is Michael Pollan, in his book “The Idea of a Garden” he talked about a massive tornado which devastated a familiar forest of pines in New England. In the aftermath of this natural disaster, there was a debate about how they were going to clean up such a mess. Two solutions were provided, the first was to let nature as it is and not bother to replace anything that was lost. The second solution was make a huge overhaul, and cut down everything in the forest in order to plant new trees, as a result their descendants can enjoy the radiance that once was. The common theme was that

In all, one must live in the hands of the world, not war with it. There are four major points to this novel relating to sustainability: Captivity, Evolution, Religion, and Human Supremacy. Ishmael states that because we are held captive by Mother Culture, man is at war with the world and has stopped evolving. Now that man controls his own food supply, he cannot evolve to change with the world. Thus, we only harm natural evolution and overproduce food to feed our enlarged population. Ishmael stated that once an ecosystem is overpopulated by a certain species, the Earth cannot sustain all (FACT CHECKED: according to https://source.wustl.edu/2008/10/population-growth-drives-depletion-of-natural-resources/ the earth cannot produce enough food and water to sustain 7.4 billion people equally). The evolution of man is stunted because there is no change to adapt to. Religion, though, gives people freedom to do what they please with the world because it provides a model of human life without mentioning to pay attention to the laws of nature. Although we are the most highly evolved beings on the planet, we do not have a natural inclination to be supreme over all other beings. That notion came with Mother Culture; the world is might be meant to be full of self aware organisms. However, while I do understand the validity of each of these points, there was not once a clear method stated of how this can help

Jared Diamond, in his article, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human race”, explains that the worst mistake that humans made was the decision to change from a hunter gatherer society into an agriculture society. Jared Diamond gives evidence of how switching from an agricultural society was a bad mistake. Many believe that adopting an agricultural society and leaving the hunter gatherer society was the way to a more qualitative and sustainable lifestyle. As Diamond says, it is true that because this society was adopted and evolved because we have longer lifespans and live better now than how people lived back in the old days. But Diamond`s claim that the hunter gatherer society gave humans more benefits individually than what the agricultural society had to offer is agreeable.

The conquering and development of natural land has in the past, been seen as a mark of human civilization. In the United States, our progress is often measured by growth and development, but should this be re-examined? There are many opinions on the subject of urban sprawl and its effects on wildlife, but one thing is for certain, we are expanding. From 1955 to 2005, urban and suburban areas grew by 300%, however, the population only increased by 75% over the same period (Ewing, Kostyack and Chen). According to NatureServe, a non-profit conservation organization, urban sprawl threatens one of every three endangered species in the United States. NatureServe’s analysis states, “rare and endangered species data shows that three-fifths (60

The transition from the traditional hunter gatherer societies, in to an agriculture based living system, has allowed humans to increase their population size, putting strains on the Earth’s environment. Agriculture has also brought along with it a decrease in women’s roles in the community, while also bringing about a class system where the wealthy rule, and were the weak and poor obey. As humans began to domesticate more plants and animals, they settled in permanent areas. The Change from hunter gatherer benefited few, but had dire consequences for the earth and groups with in it. One such consequence was the population increase, which has lead to major issues throughout history, and one that has ties to current global issues.

The relationship between people and their environment in A Land Remembered is one where the profit from land exploitation is naturally corrupting and exponentially increases the exploiters lust for larger profit, leading to the exploiter planning larger scale endeavors in the future. The author, Patrick D. Smith (1984), suggests the idea that communities naturally grow in a hedonic cycle to crave more resources to fuel loftier endeavors that require even more resources from the environment, an idea that is also discussed by Aldo Leopold in the Land Ethic as wholly negative, and that is also part of my world view that is rather more optimistic.

According to National Geographic, 40% of the Earth today is farmland—soil being manipulated to feed the 7.6 billion human beings on this world. We have taken over this world like ants swarming to a piece of rotting fruit, without much thought to the organisms that have been on Earth long before us. Our lives may be easier in that we do not have to forge for our food or water anymore, but with the stress of today’s world, was the tradeoff worth the natural land? Willa Cather’s novel, O Pioneers! brings attention to the way we choose to use the land, whether it is in our best interests, the land’s, or both. The characters in O Pioneers! demonstrate how in order to maintain a successful relationship with the land we live on, it is necessary to be able to both adapt to the land and mold it to fit our physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

The book “Changes in the Land” by William Cronon in summary is based on environmental history where science, social science, the way society affects human nature and vice-versa is all combined into his narrative. With that being said, he believed that humans are dependent on nature, and nature is something that’s either made or broken by humans. Same goes for vegetation and land area. He wrote about conflicts between two cultures, where when the settlers came in to New England, they took over the Native American’s home. The power the settlers had over the Native Americans grew so strong that it got to a point where the rule of usufruct was put in place, where Native Americans could make use of any natural resource on earth as long as it wasn’t being needed by another person.

Ismael is novel that pointe it in that the human need to change their way of life and they have to stop what they doing to the world. According to Ishmael the human destroyed the world and kill the animals like the gorillas. Ishmael is gorilla he said the men destroying the world and they have to stop doing what they do. He and the narrator are describing everything in the world what happen in the world right now. They make the people to parts takers and leavers. Philosophy of this story that the people have to know how the other things around them look to them. The human think they are the best in this world, but Ishmael said that the human is destroying the world. Each them in the book has purpose to say it in the book. For example,

“People who will not sustain trees, will soon live in a world that cannot sustain people”(Bryce Nelson). Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. Deforestation has overtime become a leading environmental problem in the U.S. It is estimated that at the beginning of the european settlement, in 1630, the area of forest was 423 million hectares. By 1907, the area had declined to 307 million, according to,”U.S forest facts and historical trends”. Deforestation is caused and will affect the human who call the U.S home. Issues with the environment such as global warming, the thinning of the ozone, and deforestation all contribute to critical problems in the U.S. deforestation highly

The history of the world seldom includes the impact of human conquest upon the environment. Human’s consistently ravage the land and waters around them taking what is considered useful to mankind with reckless abandon. This continued mentality leaves the world in a damaged state unfit for life of any kind. The town of Picher Oklahoma mirrors the legacy of total human consumption at the cost of the land.

A significant event was when Ishmael saw dead people. This happened on page thirteen when a man drove his family all the way to Ishamel village with bullet holes everywhere in the van. When he got out of the car he vomited and cried when he noticed that all three of his children and his wife were dead. Ishmael witnessed all of this happen to the man and felt numb and nauseated. He realized that the war is getting closer and closer to the village with him and his family. A whole group of men and women ran through with stray bullets in them and some didn’t notice it until others pointed it out. The last disaster Ishmeal saw was a woman with her shot up baby on her back, but luckily for her the bullet didn’t go through the baby’s body. Now it

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss depicts a world ravaged by deforestation and suffering from other environmental crises. In the town of Thneedville, an aspiring capitalist begins to sell his new product and as a result of booming business, the cornerstone of his business pays the price. The trees, the only natural resource used in production, are harvested to the point of extinction. The lack of trees leads to soil erosion, air pollution, and species extinction. While this is a children’s tale and Dr. Seuss’s illustration may be quite extreme, it is a reality for future generations of our planet. Human involvement in ecosystems by clearing land for urban development, logging, and agriculture have all exacerbated the rate of decline in the region’s natural systems. The deforestation of rainforests for the cultivation of palm oil is causing the possible extinction of orangutans and exacerbating air quality issues in Indonesia.

The number of people living in urban areas is dramatically increasing across the world. Currently, 75 % of people live in cities in the developed world, (Bernhardt E.S. and Palmer M.A, 2007) despite such high percentage many do not get access to the green and blue spaces available, in other words cannot interact with nature. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency green spaces are ‘land that is partly or completely covered with grass, trees, shrubs or other vegetation’ (Environmental Protection Agency, 2014) This includes community gardens, parks as well as cemeteries. (Environmental Protection Agency, 2014) On the other hand, blue spaces include rivers, canals and lakes. (Sally, M, 2010) As urbanisation increases, it will pose a greater threat to nature such as pollution, habitat destruction, erosion and colonisation of native species. There are various ways to engage with nature. However, one reason for green and blue spaces not being utilised effectively by people may be due to people being unaware of the values that these have and the crucial functions they undertake in the ecosystem such as recycling nutrients and controlling the hydrological cycle.

In the late period of 20th century, the accelerated development of urbanisation led to the excessively consumption of city land and destruction of the balance of ecological system in the US. In order to regulate the urban sprawl, some North American scholars started to review this kind of uncontrolled approach of land exploitation in 1990s. It was reported by the American President’s Council on Sustainable Development that “green infrastructure strategies actively seek to understand, leverage, and value the different ecological, social, and economic functions provided by natural systems in order to guide more efficient and sustainable land use and development patterns as well as protect ecosystems” in 1999, as a result, it boosted the boom of green infrastructure.