“Love It or Lose It: The Coming Biophilia Revolution” written by David W. Orr has a quote, “Compared with earlier cultures, our distinction lies in the fact that technology now allows us to move much further toward total domination of nature than ever before.” Today we have iPods, cell phones, extreme video games, and we live in areas encrusted in freeways, shopping centers and condensed urban or suburban settings. The only thing nature is used for is to tastefully decorate the surrounding areas. Each day that passes more and more sophisticated technology becomes available. Could the world survive without it? Could the people be happy is the question?
E. O. Wilson has described the word “biophilia” as “the urge to affiliate with other forms of life.” The people of our earth have become attached to materials and not to nature. Biophobia is what an individual feels when they are requiring all the things they want to be changed into mass consumption. Our world and the individuals who live here have easily become biophobia because we have technology that allows us to have almost total power over nature.
Can the people of our earth become attached to nature again? Interestingly, Stephen Jay Gould believes we have to in order to save our species and the environment. Our people need to think of how we are using our supplies and how we use our earth. Orr suggests if we were loved our nature more we would have more parks and less shopping centers, more small farms and less agri-businesses, more small towns and less large cities, more bicycle trails and less freeways, more readers and less tv watchers, more wilderness and less landfills, and more wildlife and less pets.
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