Persuasive Essay On Human Vs Nature

One Man vs Humanity and Nature: An Analysis of Maldives’ Plea for Justice Genocide, starvation, and war are unfortunate realities which humans have brought upon themselves due to technological advancements, greed, and the notion of inequality among people. The effects on the environment, such as climate change, is also part of this list. As a result of the industrialized lifestyles people live, the natural balance of the earth’s climate patterns is becoming unstable because of the amount of greenhouse gases being trapped in the earth’s atmosphere. This is leading to the earth’s rise in temperature, ice caps melting, and sea levels rising. As a result of the foreseen danger that this will cause for people living in low-lying locations, Mohamed Nasheed, the President of Maldives, made an intriguing decision; he had a cabinet session in the Atlantic Ocean to make other nations …show more content…
The plea does consist of the Malthusian view of the earth having limited resources. However, it would have been more persuasive if he argued against this piece of scripture. According to the scripture, humans were God’s most prized creation, and so God decaled that they would “[b]e fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (KJV 1.28). This demonstrates the importance of stewardship which is the notion that humans should now their place in this world and they must take care of it because it is their only planet. People have been taking victimizing nature too much, and so human actions are now making humans the victims of their own actions as well as