Why Is Civilization Was Purchased By The Betrayal Of Nature

Although life seems as if our advances are making tasks easier, if you give an individual the proper facts and knowledge of where the ecosystem stands today life is in fact becoming more complicated. The gadgets we use on an everyday basis have the potential to sway ones opinion, but in the grand scheme of things they are aiding in the destruction of nature and our planet as we know it. The word complicated was used because with every new device being rapidly mass created, a new set back occurs in the ever going effort to sustain this planet of ours. So when asked whether I defend or refute the objective of this paper which is and I quote” Civilization was purchased by the betrayal of Nature” I am forced to defend that because with every …show more content…
Pfaff stated in his book that through research, “Population density, road density, and crop area” can be seen as “important determinants of …deforestation” (Pfaff 1997, page #7). This quote is not saying that the aforementioned changes are the root of evil when it comes to nature, but rather a possible link to the eventual cause of deforestation. Deforestation is directly linked to the number of incumbents established in an area. In other words as the population continues to grow, the amount of damage to the trees and habitats increases due to the production of goods, farming, homes, and civilization in general. An ecosystem can be defined as the way organisms interact with each other and the community itself, so one cannot address the decline of nature by the rise of civilization without shedding some light on our ecosystem. In an article by Trevor Hancock in Oxford Journals a fact is mentioned stating “Nearly two thirds of the services provided by nature to humankind are found to be in decline worldwide”, thus given an opportunity to delve deeper this can be attributed to the ecological footprint that grows along side of the growth of civilization (Hancock 2011, page# …show more content…
The communities across the globe must come together with a united front in order to conquer this growing dilemma. Thoreau stated a quote so eloquently, he wrote “Here is this vast, savage, hovering mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man” (Thoreau 2010, page#137). Therefore, this lengthy quote suggest that it is necessary to take notice and appreciate nature for its magnificence, and how we interact with the ecosystem instead of solely focusing on the interactions between each other and our own