Human is a part of nature. Action based on rational argument with our well-sharpened senses is always necessary to realize the society whose human and animals can coexist forever.
What is a natural environment?
What is a natural environment which we are making efforts to preserve? I have attended a party to discuss about this question.
A natural environment which we can feel everyday in the current modern society is the result of some human activity excepts for few limited unexplored field on earth. The global environment might be as it is if human had not born in the world. Biodiversity of there may be richer than reality.
“Natural” means the result which was broken out in spite of essence of everything. Then, what was “made” with an intervention of human activity may not be natural. However, this logic is based on the assumption “Human is separated from a natural environment.” To begin with, is human a part of a natural environment?
Responsible human
I defined my vision of conservation activity, that is an image of ideal nature as “A society that everyone can relate to nature and life forever.” Now, it is not reasonable way that people cannot coexist each other, as I have written in “Environmental education in my view”.
People are living with a huge benefit from a natural environment as a member of natural environment. However, arguments for conservation activity tend to be discussed on the structure of “Human vs Natural Environment” from the standpoint with a opened distance between human and a natural environment.
Today I guessed this cause why sometimes people are separated from a natural environment and accepting that reasonable situation during their daily activity. For example, we can recognize it as living in a natural environment when we are feeling comfortable breeze and hearing singing of birds and insects. On the other side, We are part from a natural environment when we are in the space with conditioned air by using a vehicle or spending in a concrete building because that almost has been made by people. It is not strange for us to have an illusion how we treat a natural environment as another object in the world which is completely different from a civic society.
Here, improvement for a natural environment by human causes retarded feedback for us. Moreover, it is realized occasionally as tragic result such as a disaster. A target of such feedback shall be themselves who have made that improvement for some times, or be the next generation of them for the other times.
Relationship between human and a natural environment
Overhunting of marine resources is one of the most interested topics. People feel uneasy if they could maintain sustainability of marine animals and natural resources. For forever coexisting of human and animals, we need to exclude an emotional argument and include rational discussion with organized facts how people effects resources and a natural environment and how causes feedback for us and animals.
Nevertheless, a lot of things are still not clear. People pursue only their own profit with leaving ambiguous things. Some of such activities have been fixed as a local culture which has been producing relationship among that regional society. It makes friction with people with another culture.
I suppose what we need to keep in our mind under the such unstable circumstances is the fact that we are receiving much fortune from a natural environment everyday. For example, Japanese people represent this mind as the word “Itadakimasu” which means “we are eating life.” to thank for everything in the world including rice farmers before daily meal. We should never rust our sense to receipt that there is a natural environment over the window glass in our optimized life of modern society. Aquariums may take on the responsibility of helping that activity.
Appendix
I wanted to study more how protecting ocean is important before writing this topic. I would like to have a better understanding and write it again.
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