Where do your environmental ethics lie? Anthropocentric? Biocentrism? Or Ecocentrism?
It is very important to understand how people view nature and themselves. Many people have strong options for certain aspects, and minimal knowledge on others. The key for understanding how you think of nature, is first to be educated on the resources and functions nature provides, and the needs and impacts people lives have. Everyone is different and so are the many ecosystems. Personality I have the view focused around Ecocentrism.
As my understanding grows on the vital processes of nature, my views have become less self centered, and more concerned with my choice and overall impacts my actions might have. View myself equal to nature, makes me more aware of the systems and functions all living things rely on to survive. It’s frustrating that large populations of wild animals are able to strive in cooperation with the environment, and have little to no impact. The basic model of survival, keeps nature sustainable and pure. Humans do use the environment in equal ways as well but are unable to not impact nature in return, making it unfair to other living creatures in the area.
Nature is a powerful tool for creating many variations. The harmony between living and non-living aspects creates amazing ecosystems, with strong and weak points. Example can be the creation of a certain way of life, surviving both dry and wet seasons with no problems when the system remains intact. Alterations can change or even destroy sustainability.
Current irresponsible actions of industry can contaminate water and air, dampening the effectiveness of an ecosystem, and effect all within. Humans should be learning how to live with nature as an equal, to find the hidden benefits, of medicine, structures, and unknown knowledge, instead of benefiting off of very pulmonary resource.
Over extraction of one part of the system will unbalance the rest, changing the functions and overall the ecosystem. The view of having a systematic environment will lose some diversity to maintain a working system. Unique species might be lost to save an impacted system.
Humans may damage certain areas, but also put aside land to save others. This shouldn’t have to be done in a systematic world. The human way of life is far from being part of the system, than it is dominating it. A more sustainable life style can tie human activity back into nature, and all living can learn from each other.
I enjoy learning new and interesting aspect of the environment, because there is no end of new discoveries and problems to be faced. Seeing connections and understanding how important everything is and the parts they play in completing the ecosystem.
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