After experiencing the pollution caused by the industrial revolution, human brought back the fear and respect to nature. As a result, human began to find a balance between social development and nature to achieve sustainability, in other words, to achieve the persistent of both human and nature. This essay will explore the importance of human-nature relationship for moving towards sustainability by firstly looking through the meaning of sustainability and nature. Then, it would be argued that human is part of nature, the interaction between human and nature is unavoidable. Finally, it would be seen that only by establishing a two-way nourishing relationship, a balance could be found between human and nature, can sustainability be achieved.
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Although exceptiomalism physically excludes human and human creation from nature, there are unbreakable links between human and nature. According to Liu, Dietz, Carpenter, Alberti and Folke (2007), human and nature are coupled systems, which means the interaction between human and nature systems couldn’t be avoided. Aboriginal people always remembered this unbreakable relationship that human is tied to nature (Sveiby, 2009). The aboriginal people divides their people into different groups symboled by different animal totems. If one of the species were extinct, the people under that totem are believed to die as well (Sveiby, 2009). This shows the sense that human is part of nature and if the nature suffers human will suffer as well. However as the human society develop, people tend to forget the importance of nature and that human is actually part of nature. Physically, human development is based on resources, which means humans are dependent on nature. However, nature could survive without nature. In fact, it is believed that nature would develop better without human existence (Wirth, 2013). Thus, the relationship between human and nature is similar to the relationship between human and economy: human could survive without economy, however there would be no economy without human (Bender et al., 2012). In other words, economy is a subsystem of human, and human is a subsystem of nature. If nature collapse, human system, lacking its living base, would …show more content…
However, as human care more about nature, they would have a better development. For instance, for fish farmers, satisfying the need for otters will increase its production and finally bring benefit to the farmers themselves (Jolibert, Max-Neef, Rauschmayer, & Paavola, 2011). Thus, caring about the need of the nature will finally nourish the human system as well. For the developed countries, one of the barriers of achieving sustainability is human need, which is pushed by the modern human norm (Williams, 2012). As mentioned above, human and nature should reach a balanced point to achieve sustainability. However, humans are tending to take more from nature than what they give back to nature. Thus, human need could be and must be reduced. Not to say that people should reduce their living quality, but the social norm is pushing people to more they need (Williams, 2012). Through reducing the need, a norm of owning a rather smaller ecological footprint is expected to be established (Williams, 2012). This will find more balance between human and nature, which makes sustainability more likely to
Although exceptiomalism physically excludes human and human creation from nature, there are unbreakable links between human and nature. According to Liu, Dietz, Carpenter, Alberti and Folke (2007), human and nature are coupled systems, which means the interaction between human and nature systems couldn’t be avoided. Aboriginal people always remembered this unbreakable relationship that human is tied to nature (Sveiby, 2009). The aboriginal people divides their people into different groups symboled by different animal totems. If one of the species were extinct, the people under that totem are believed to die as well (Sveiby, 2009). This shows the sense that human is part of nature and if the nature suffers human will suffer as well. However as the human society develop, people tend to forget the importance of nature and that human is actually part of nature. Physically, human development is based on resources, which means humans are dependent on nature. However, nature could survive without nature. In fact, it is believed that nature would develop better without human existence (Wirth, 2013). Thus, the relationship between human and nature is similar to the relationship between human and economy: human could survive without economy, however there would be no economy without human (Bender et al., 2012). In other words, economy is a subsystem of human, and human is a subsystem of nature. If nature collapse, human system, lacking its living base, would …show more content…
However, as human care more about nature, they would have a better development. For instance, for fish farmers, satisfying the need for otters will increase its production and finally bring benefit to the farmers themselves (Jolibert, Max-Neef, Rauschmayer, & Paavola, 2011). Thus, caring about the need of the nature will finally nourish the human system as well. For the developed countries, one of the barriers of achieving sustainability is human need, which is pushed by the modern human norm (Williams, 2012). As mentioned above, human and nature should reach a balanced point to achieve sustainability. However, humans are tending to take more from nature than what they give back to nature. Thus, human need could be and must be reduced. Not to say that people should reduce their living quality, but the social norm is pushing people to more they need (Williams, 2012). Through reducing the need, a norm of owning a rather smaller ecological footprint is expected to be established (Williams, 2012). This will find more balance between human and nature, which makes sustainability more likely to