Pop Culture and Its Interaction to Nature

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It is interesting to think that society today can justify or criticize its action with a piece of literature or movie. Today, humans can be blamed for the maltreatment toward nature, as well as all the issues that have resulted from it. These issues, as a result of treating nature as an object that continuously yields necessities for humans, like water, only causes us to approach nature as a symbol of necessity, rather than an entity whom provides the population of the Earth with stable nutrition and habitat for survival. From this, it can be determined that popular culture reflects human treatment and view of nature, mirroring the scarring of nature by human interaction and degradation of nature.

In popular culture today, it is easy to find a part of oneself in forms of media released to the public. An example of this media could be movies. Movies are released monthly, sometimes even weekly to the public, and tend to have meaning behind them that a group of people, or even certain individuals can relate. Over the years, these films have become more geared toward reflecting the way humans destroy nature, rather than collaborate with it. In the movie 2012, humans are shown living everyday life happily, in a civilized urban area where the sun is always shining. Nature only exists to the extent that it gives humans the needs for survival: food and air. Nature finally starts acting different than usual. Unusual seismic activity is occurring, and eventually destruction by nature occurred within civilized regions of the world. This destruction by nature, of places that were urban, symbolized the belief by humans that nature was a force rather than a being. Media portrayed nature as a force wiping out the earth country by country. As ...

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...when was the last movie released that portrayed humans treating Mother Nature with compassion and love, rather than as an object? From this, it can be determined that popular culture definitely reflects the human perspective of nature, especially in relation to how it is treated. One may argue that popular culture shapes our view of nature, due to the fact that media released to the public shows humans destroying nature. If seen in a movie, one is more likely to “do it”. This statement can be negated due to the fact that we as humans are performing the destruction of nature, and are exposing it to societies around the world, in an effort to stop it in the future. Humankind is only a small portion of nature, but we are causing it most time. Hence, reflecting the destruction of nature by humans in popular culture, making an effort to end it in years to come.

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