Essay On Native American Mentality

Native Americans do possess the potential to save the world that we live in today. The secret to doing, so in my opinion, is to change the mentality of the general society from their “anthropocentric” mentality to the Native American’s “nature-culture nexus.” In doing so, society will switch from their insatiable desire of progress to the indigenous realism that emphasizes the ideology of equity amongst all living things and is constantly innovating from experiences. This, in turn, will result in a shift of the hierarchy of life; we as humans would no longer classify ourselves as supreme entities that have omnipotence over all other living beings. Instead, we would consider ourselves equals - only insufficient in comparison to nature. However, …show more content…
Sure, it is nice for us to not have to worry about life threatening things such has deadly diseases, drastic temperature changes, or dangerous weather but we care about retaining this level of comfort even at the price of our environment. By this I mean that what it takes in order to achieve this level of comfort uses means that are much more harmful to the environment than the benefit of our comfort. The main source of our comfort is our dependence on the depleting supply of our fossil fuel resources. The fact that we rely so heavily on a resource that will inevitably become exhausted after enough speculation, truly shows how ignorant we as a society are to the issue currently at hand. We should focus on renewable sources of energy to depend on, such as hydroelectric power or solar power as a means to fuel our comfort. This dependence on natural gas has resulted in our current dire environmental conundrum, so why continue to depend on it? Well, for one thing, it is cheaper than any other option currently available and cost effectiveness is king in a capitalistic society such as