Man, the Predator of Nature William Wordsworth saw how men were treating the planet 200 years ago when he wrote The World is too much with us and we still do not comprehend the outrageous significance of humans mistreating the planet. Men are too busy in the hustle of everyday life that do not realize the importance of taking care of our home, planet Earth. Earth will be the home of our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and yet we do not stop mistreating our environment. Pollution is causing global warming, species are in danger of extinction and yet we made bullfight a sport. Indeed, human selfishness have led us to destroy what was given to us to preserve.
Was the earth created to preserve humanity, or was man created
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Men have forgotten the importance of treating this planet as their only home there will ever be. We are not going to live forever, but consequences of our careless actions to preserve the planet will affect our generations to come. We have forgotten that blessings can go from generation to generation, but the misused of our capability to do good in this life will be passed to our descendants. Man has become a voracious destroyer of the natural source for their own lives, in their zeal to excel men ends up feeling somehow a little God.
He thinks he is the creator, inventor, transformer, master of life, patron of the universe, forgetting that all things in nature are not made by chance, that each species has its place in the wheel of life, each has a role the man is one who destroys his own
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Killing plants without thinking that they are his coat, his food and medicine. Man does not have the slightest appreciation and consideration about the other living beings. Some people made their living by destroying and annihilating our environment. Man bombards the earth and all living things that come cross him with a destructive force. We could make a list of all things that man has destroyed or that had attempt to destroy in his time on earth and each generation has done the same, as if it were the last to come to exist. Such is the destructive urge of man alike trying to destroy his past, the historical past and the assets of mankind. Nowadays they are organization that are fighting to protect the environment and to stop the advance of civilization. The preserve of the environment should be a convergence of cultures, where all united fight to protect the planet. It is a shame but we are far from this to become a real fact. There are some many unconscious people that only consider the human life as the only worthy life to preserve; without thinking that life goes to all living organisms. We are just one among billions of species and life forms. To humans, it took millions of years to become the dominant specie. Man is risking their own survival if the accelerated destruction of the
In the article "Island Civilization: A vision for human occupancy of earth in the fourth millennium" a very good point was made about how humans are not treating the earth with respect, however our generation still has a chance to turn the earth from cancerous to healthy.
As time passes, our population continues to increase and multiply; yet, on the other hand, our planet’s resources continue to decrease and deplete. As our population flourishes, human beings also increase their demands and clamor for the Earth’s natural products, yet are unable to sacrifice their surplus of the said resources. Garret Hardin’s work highlighted the reality that humans fail to remember that the Earth is finite and its resources are limited. Hardin’s article revealed that people are unable to fathom that we indeed have a moral obligation to our community and our natural habitat — that we are not our planet’s conquerors but its protectors. We fail to acknowledge and accept that we only have one Earth and that we must protect and treasure it at all costs. Despite all our attempts at annihilating the planet, the Earth will still be unrelenting — it will still continue to be present and powerful. Human beings must recognize that we need this planet more than it needs us and if we persist on being egocentric and covetous, in the end it is us who will
It is difficult for humans to live in harmony with nature because humans’ selfishness always places profits before our earth’s needs. We live in a consumer society, which we purchase interesting products and dispose of them carelessly. Those products with non-decomposable materials, which make our life easier and more comfortable, result a massive damage to our environment. In the articles, “A Fable for Tomorrow” by Rachel Carson and “Our Animals Rite” by Anna Quindlen, both authors suggest destruction in nature world due to human’s activities. As environment issues presented by scientists, governments around the world start to give highly attention on the environmental protection, but there are many challenges in implementing environmental protection policies. Some of the top environmental concerns are air pollution, climate changing and trash waste. Although people started to aware the horrible consequences due to polluted environment, an efficient life, people apathy toward ecosystem and human's unlimited desires for a confortable life have created obstacles for the world to protect the environment.
Humans can not be the only thing that is hurting the Earth. When you really think about it, Earth goes through a lot of natural disasters, which cannot be controlled. According to an activist, Tim Haering, “Tsunamis, floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, disease nature kills more than we kill each other.” Earth throws in all of these natural ...
Mankind simply has failed to do what he was entitled to do which was to be a steward of the earth. Man has developed a way of life that is completely not sustainable. The amount resources man uses completely depicts that future generations will not have any and there is a possibility that there might not be a generation after all if we continue to do so. Ishmael instantly became one of the most influential books on my mentality that I have ever read because it gave me a different outlook on the way that we live life. Society tells us that it right and just and there is nothing to worry about when we need to. It is time that we take on our roles to enforce sustainability. This generation is the only hope that we have because past generations have failed as well. We are one step closer to the end of it. I would recommend that anyone looking to practice to enforce sustainability read Ishmael because it is a must. We can either work to enforce sustainability or we have another option that firmly many do not agree with. We can believe in Elon Musk the greatest entrepreneur of our time. Elon firmly believes in sustainability, but damn knows for a fact that humans will never practice sustainable ways of life. Before the amount of resources run out, it is good time to go to Mars.
The present comes from the past and the two must always be in step. Our activities shape the future of our planet. The earth as we know it today is facing an unprecedented ecological crisis. Its cause is the relentlessly increasing exploitation of the planet’s available resources to make up for the demands of the economy. It has become apparent that these environmental problems are predominantly the repercussions of human activities vis-à-vis nonhuman and nonliving things that co-inhabitate the earth. As pointed out by Lynn White in his article, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis”, the fate of the ecology depends on what humans think about themselves in relation to things in the environment (White Jr 1973). Lynn White brings an important point to our attention. If human beings consider the environment as an important entity of their life, then they will strive to protect and sustain it; in contrast, if they cannot conceive of a connection for the things in environment, the world will continue to degrade. The problem at hand is that, since the beginning of the economic era, people seem to have lost themselves, even more so than before, to wealth and social standing. The economy market triggered people to nurture their selfish desires and alienate from the rest of the world. As a result of that, human nature is often described as self-centered. However, according Mencius – the one who instigated the writings of the Confucian traditions –
This quotation opens your eyes, I know of no one who wants to destroy the earth either. The majority of man kind doesn’t think too much about what is happening to the earth due to their actions. When most of us drive a car or spray deodorant we don’t think of the consequences. It is the responsibility of those who create problems to help fix them and prevent them from happening again. In society today it i...
Man has destroyed nature, and for years now, man has not been living in nature. Instead, only little portions of nature are left in the world
What many people don 't know is that many animals and habitats are being destroyed because of the careless human race. I feel that it is crucial that humans intervene in the destruction of animals species and their habitats the same. After all, most of the destruction is that of our machines and mass production. I mean what would happen to all the species that become endangered from our mistakes such as careless environmental endeavors. Did you know that there are many things that we could do to help, but people just put them to the side because they feel that it isn 't important to reduce, reuse, and recycle? Such menial tasks literally take thirty seconds of our time to call and order a recycling bin. (www.worldofwildlife.org>xspecies)
William Wordsworth who was born in 1770 was a poet during the Romantic Period. Before he graduated from St. John’s College, he traveled across Europe which intensified his love for nature and influenced his poetry. In his Petrarchan sonnet, “The World is Too Much with Us”, Wordsworth explains that society is corrupted because they are more focused on luxurious items than on nature. To convey his message, he put an emphasis on a shift of point of view. In this change, he switches his tone from complaining to scolding. Wordsworth uses figurative language and allusions to express his feelings that “as society changes, its values change as well” (saifjw).
Wordsworth has been considered to be one of the most significant romantic writers in history. The romantic period was one of the most influential time periods of British literature and was referred to as incidents of life. Romanticism followed little of the same old boring rules and left authors free to write as they felt. Most literature from this period was based on love, fascinations, obsessions, myths, and nature, these and other such emotions or areas of interest are what changed the eighteenth-century ideas of poetry forever. Wordsworth is considered a romantic poet, because his writings were very imaginative, emotional, and visionary. A majority of Wordsworth’s literature expressed his obsession with nature. He had many literary works, some on nature and some on humanist topics. Although Wordsworth considered himself to be a humanist writer, most of his readers still consider him to be more of a writer on nature. Once a reader has begun to read some of Wordsworth’s poetry they soon realized he is a naturalist romantic.
Wordsworth's Poetry A lot of literature has been written about motherhood. Wordsworth is a well known English poet who mentions motherhood and female strength in several of his poems, including the Mad Mother, The Thorn, and The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman. This leads some critics to assume that these poems reflect Wordsworth's view of females. Wordsworth portrays women as dependent on motherhood for happiness, yet he also emphasizes female strength.
Many people assume that the environment is not in danger. They believe that as technology advances, we do not need to worry about renewing natural resources, recycling, and finding new ways to produce energy. They state that one person in the world does not make a large difference. In reality, each individual's contribution greatly affects our environment. Our natural resources are slowly disappearing, and we must work together to save them and the Earth from ruin.
William Wordsworth was known as the poet of nature. He devoted his life to poetry and used his feeling for nature to express him self and how he evolved.
In William Wordsworth’s poems, the role of nature plays a more reassuring and pivotal r ole within them. To Wordsworth’s poetry, interacting with nature represents the forces of the natural world. Throughout the three poems, Resolution and Independence, Tintern Abbey, and Michael, which will be discussed in this essay, nature is seen prominently as an everlasting- individual figure, which gives his audience as well as Wordsworth, himself, a sense of console. In all three poems, Wordsworth views nature and human beings as complementary elements of a sum of a whole, recognizing that humans are a sum of nature. Therefore, looking at the world as a soothing being of which he is a part of, Wordsworth looks at nature and sees the benevolence of the divinity aspects behind them. For Wordsworth, the world itself, in all its glory, can be a place of suffering, which surely occurs within the world; Wordsworth is still comforted with the belief that all things happen by the hands of the divinity and the just and divine order of nature, itself.