Creating an Artificial Environment

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Creating an Artificial Environment

Has Technology morally put the environment and nature on the back burner? Are we living lifestyles that are constantly putting our health at risk? Due to technology our economic status is on the verge of collapsing? Is there a race by Americans to see who could use the resources of the earth faster? These questions and a lot other arise when discussing the problems with our environment. Through my research paper on an artificial environment I hope to cover those problems that come about when arguing the facts about technology. What can we do to prevent the changes we are making in our environment from destroying the physical basis

My paper consist of facts which tell us that we are and still will remain an invention of our own environment. "Our perception of the world is increasingly shaped by the artificial environment we inhabit."(Mander, 206) Man has made practically everything around us. The natural way of doing things have disappeared. Man's environment has changed so rapidly in recent years that all man can do is absorb and recycle. In the book I'm researching called Where Does Humanity Go From Here the author discusses how masculinity or the "macho" controls our society. "….we will continue to seek to dominate nature rather than cooperate with it, we will in time destroy ourselves in the process." (Melissinos, 375) Once we take care of the obvious then we can make progress in having a better human society.

Why are simple things people live for in our society not as sufficient in other countries. In more poverty stricken cultures hot showers are major luxuries as well as televisions, radios, and newspapers. We live too much for stuff. Our lifestyles are made up of so ...

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...issinos, 377) Basically there is a strong need for change in societies values.

In conclusion we have no further choice but to rethink our human intuition and existence in nature. If we don't realize nature is us and our kinship, then our technological power will soon destroy nature. Not only will nature be decimated but anything and everything around it, including us.

Bibliography:

Mander, Jerry/Meadows, Donella. "The Walling of Awareness

Inconsistently on Land." Literature and the Environment. Pub. Addison-Wesley Educational. 1999. Pg. 206-214/Pg. 377- 380.

Forbes, R.J. The Conquest of Nature. Pub. New York,

Praeger. 1968 Pgs. 56-59

Melissinos, Adrian C. "Where Does Humanity Go From Here."

Principles of Modern Technology. Pub. Cambridge, New York;

Cambridge University. Pgs. 375-380

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