The Ideal Environment: The Perfect Environment And The Environment

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Since the beginning of time, it has been a well-known fact that humans have being modifying the Earth while taking residence on it. “Maybe the earth would be better off without us. Safe and clean and perfect……Like a toy nobody ever played with”, is a quote that E Horne & J Comeau cited. By reading such a quote, it makes one ponder about how they contribute to destroying Earth as we know it, or how their involvement in our beautiful planet that will commit to long term sustainability.
This essay aims to explore the above-mentioned quotation by seeking the disputation that has been made of a safe and ideal environment and the reality in which we are actually living in. This essay will thus discuss theories made from Alan Durning and Andrew Schmookler, who are theorist of who had contributed their time in analyzing the behavior of humans in nature. Although we all have our own opinions and way of living, we cant help but fight of the influences that media creates in our daily lives, put forward by claims, visual language and how they have also constructed a foundation of relationships that humans have with nature today. …show more content…

Environmentalists, continuously attempt to warn us about the danger that our activities bring in and the negative impacts it generates, which is one step closer in losing our home of Earth. Some of the activities that we as humans indulge in to give ourselves an easier and better life include, the over consumption of limited natural resources, deforestation, which poses as a threat to the survival of every specie on earth, as trees generate oxygen, which is of essence for life and the use of fossil fuels which contribute to global warming (Durning.,

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