Many concerns are growing about climate change and other environmental issues that the world is being faced with as a result of humans. Humans are constantly being blasted with messages from media about how humans need to make detrimental changes in our daily lifes. Media hardly tackles essential problems; leaving out details and failing to report the heart of the issues. So, we the people have yet to really understand when it comes to the planet. Individuals understand that people are messing with some of Earth’s crucial systems, and will face the backlashes. What people don’t understand is how this all came in beginning, and what we need to be doing if we want to live to see the next one hundred years. Society must actually say what we are
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Everything has intrinsic importance and beauty because it is important for the ecosystem. Everything fills a particular hole, and subsidizes to the equity of the natural world. I feel that my worldview has changed since reading Ishmael: An Adventure of The Mind and Spirit by David Quinn. At the beginning of the book, Ishmael says, “it’s because there is something fundamentally wrong with humans. Something that definitely works against paradise. Something that makes people stupid and destructive and greedy and shortsighted” (Quinn 81). In this quote he mentions greed to show us that this is very crucial to the demolition of the world. Looking in on civility from the outside gives Ishmael a viewpoint from which to chastise mankind without hypocrisy. Throughout the book, “Ishmael is a critic of human civilization, but not of the human species itself” (Miles Shuman). Ishmael criticizes mankind throug the book saying that humans had existed for three million years without a civilization and then after 10,000 years, they became globally destructive. It has made me think that we cannot rely on technological advances to solve important ecological problems. Also, my worldview has changed since learning about factory farms in class. Since having the knowledge that in factory farms, “animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds and stuffed into wire cages, metal crates, and other torturous devices” (PETA), it has changed where I buy grocery products from and the brand I buy
Everything has intrinsic importance and beauty because it is important for the ecosystem. Everything fills a particular hole, and subsidizes to the equity of the natural world. I feel that my worldview has changed since reading Ishmael: An Adventure of The Mind and Spirit by David Quinn. At the beginning of the book, Ishmael says, “it’s because there is something fundamentally wrong with humans. Something that definitely works against paradise. Something that makes people stupid and destructive and greedy and shortsighted” (Quinn 81). In this quote he mentions greed to show us that this is very crucial to the demolition of the world. Looking in on civility from the outside gives Ishmael a viewpoint from which to chastise mankind without hypocrisy. Throughout the book, “Ishmael is a critic of human civilization, but not of the human species itself” (Miles Shuman). Ishmael criticizes mankind throug the book saying that humans had existed for three million years without a civilization and then after 10,000 years, they became globally destructive. It has made me think that we cannot rely on technological advances to solve important ecological problems. Also, my worldview has changed since learning about factory farms in class. Since having the knowledge that in factory farms, “animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds and stuffed into wire cages, metal crates, and other torturous devices” (PETA), it has changed where I buy grocery products from and the brand I buy