The Misunderstanding of Humans Relationship with Nature

“11 And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.” (The Bible, Genesis. 1-11) God created earth with all what it has from minerals and rocks to plants and animals. He also made the nature in a unique way. After that, God created humans and gave them dominion over the other species and creations. “28 And god blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” (The Bible, Genesis. 1-28)

God created all these for humans to use as resources to survive. However, He implied that we should not destroy the nature that we depend on to survive, we should use it in a wise way and we should also protect it to maintain the ecosystem. However, humans misunderstand this concept, and are destroying the nature. “The history of man’s efforts to subjugate nature is also the history of man’s subjugation by man.” (Horkheimer 72) We use it in wrong, immature way. We use it as if it will never be destroyed.

There are negative consequences of that prevailing ideology toward nature. Without nature, we cannot create anything; therefore, we cannot survive. “The worker can create nothing without nature, without the sensuous external world. It is the material in which his labor realizes itself…” (Marx 325) However, as we create things from nature, we lose direct contact with nature itself. We are only exposed to the things we made. “In a physical sense man lives only from these natural products, whether in the form of nourishment, heating, clot...

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... it, then we will start to understand the nature, how it works and what would be effective solutions to stop destruction of earth.

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Marx, Karl. Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. From Early Writing. Translated by Rodney Livingstone and Gregory Benton. (Penguin Books. New York, NY: 1992) Pg. 325-331.

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