Humans Damaging the Environment We, humanity, have a remarkable ability to define the world in terms
of human needs and perceptions. However, we forget about 'Mother
Nature's' urgency to maintain a balance, purity and the need for time
to replenish the resources we extract so quickly. Throughout history,
humanity has implemented much new technology with an uncertainty of
its effect on the environment. Today we are beginning to feel the
repercussions of these developments on the environment. However, the
worst is yet to come. At this time we have not felt all the damage
that will come from our inventions, nonetheless we continue to further
pollute and destroy our world. Society has now been educated and shown
greater concern to conserve our ecosystem, but it will take much time
before we see results from our work, and that is, if it is not to
late.
In twenty-five years to come, Earth may be well on its way to
recovery. As a greater amount of society begins to understand the need
for conservation, there should be more action taken to support it.
Furthermore, individual households may become more energy efficient,
as well the consumers may begin to apply more pressure onto large
corporations to conduct more environmentally friendly business.
"Science and technology will continue to advance, with the result that
new resources will be developed to take the place of resources that
are depleted" (Clark & Wallace p. 41). This quotation, taken from the
Cornucopian Thesis, suggests that our current rate of resource
extraction is not to be worried about, as new ones will soon be...
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...to the costs and negative consequences of new technologies
(Suzuki, 88)".
This is a colossal reaction to the way we live, one which we cannot
afford. This trend of lifestyle will continue throughout the next
twenty-five years, leaving our environment even more damaged then it
already is.
In order to ensure quality life in the future, we must relax our
demands and effect on the Earth. Humanity has already stretched the
environment's limits far enough in order to fill their needs and
wants. As science, technology and population increase so must our
awareness of the environment. The Earth must be healthy in order to
provide us with the essential needs we require. In twenty-five years
from now the environment' s damage may be matched to today's, however
if we don't begin to clean up now, the damage may be colossal.
At our current rate, humankind is speeding towards a frightening and destructive inevitability. Endangered species and biodiversity are sacrificed to line the pockets of billionaires; urban sprawls are favoured over natural land; new coal mines are opening; and indigenous cultures are being drowned in cement. Our environmental ecosystem is fragile to begin with, and we are steadily and masochistically doing more and more irreversible damage.
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