Belindi wrote: ↑November 11th, 2021, 1:45 pm
figliar0 wrote: ↑November 11th, 2021, 7:21 am
Hi everyone!
Some time ago I studied some ecology-oriented study programme, so this topic is quite close to me. Hovewer, I started to look at this problem in a little bit philosophical manner, and few thoughts already come to my mind. For example think about this:
Our nowaday society is (at this moment in time) the result of billions years of life evolution. Humans showed up just recently, so they definitely have no impact on the whole evolution. If we are part of evolution, it does mean that everything what humankind did was part of it. And if we can consider this evolution as natural part of universe, so we can consider a human deeds as natural part of universe. So we can say
- what happened couldn't have happened any other way.
Men made man-made climate change.
Man- made climate change was caused mainly by huge factories (1850s onwards) burning coal to make iron, steel, pottery, electricity, coal gas, concrete, paper, agricultural chemicals , and the enormous amount of stuff made from the basic materials.Later oil from oil wells added to
man-made climate change. We call this the industrial revolution. It had never happened before when men lived simply in the countryside using horse power and water power, and not using stuff made in huge coal- driven factories and using fuels from oil wells and huge coal mines.
I don't want to disagree that industrial revolution is (or may be) the reason of climate changes, sorry I did express my thoughts in hard to understand manner. I just want to say that industrial revolution (and thus climate changes) is (or may be) a natural result of whole evolution. Some time ago our ancestors started to use their brains a little bit more, started to making tools and live in bigger groups, they started to agriculture etc etc. And industrial revolution is just another continuation of this process, which started... when? What was the primary cause that resulted through long sequence of events to industrial revolution? What was that point when humankind stood on the crossroad and could change the destiny of whole planet? What should happened in another way? And finally - was humankind capable to do such a decision back then long ago?
When people talk about climate changes and ecology in general, their often used to see humankind as something out of nature, that humankind do not match natural evolution. They used to see humankind as unnatural or even evil. Why is that? When we left the ways of right and fall down to evil? Why should be humankind considered as something that do not match the rest of universe?
This may looks like little off-topic. But I think that if we want to ask how exactly can we help to planet, first we have to answer the question if planet needs our help at all and what should the direction of our help be.