The universe is one. Thanks to his ability to think, a person is aware of responsibility for the world around him and himself as part of this whole. What has nature given to man and how is he responsible for the state of the world around him?
Nature as a natural habitat
Nature - what is it? It is a natural habitat that is independent of human activities.
This is a set of ecosystems, each of which is determined by the characteristics of the relief, terrain, climate, flora and fauna, rainfall and other natural indicators of the state of the environment.
Man is a part of nature, its work. Thanks to the ability to think and actively influence the world around us, the role of man in nature is not limited to his place in the ecological system. The impact on the environment transforms natural factors to the needs of mankind and changes its natural balance, which often leads to a threat and real facts of a cataclysm.
The role of man in nature
Man has an active influence on nature in various forms of life:
- The development of natural resources. Allows a person to solve issues of energy supply, life support from raw materials.
- The development of new territories. Development of infrastructure of cities and settlements and expansion of the zone of human presence on different continents.
- Development of production. Raw material processing and waste disposal problems have a significant impact on the environment.
In the process of using natural resources, energy, territories of everything that nature gives to modern man, the negative forecast from the consequences of active human influence is not always sufficiently calculated. In this case, a number of problems arise that pose a threat to nature.
Ecological problems of the modern world
All the wealth of the world that nature has given to man has been mercilessly used in the history of the development of human civilization. This process is especially active today, using industrial production technologies.
As a result of the consumer attitude to the resources of nature, modern ecologists identify the following global problems.
- Surface pollution and changing terrain. Affects the state of climatic zones, provokes disturbances in the balance of the system, the disappearance of animal species.
- Violation of the ozone layer. Exceeds permissible levels of ultraviolet radiation.
- Changing the state of the oceans. This system is a universal regulator of natural phenomena. It poses a threat to the imbalance of the oceans ecosystem.
- Reducing the resource of minerals. It leads to a shortage of raw materials, on the production of which the life support systems of mankind depend, provoking a change in the structure of the earth's crust.
- The extermination of plant and animal species. It leads to an imbalance of the ecosystem.
- Forest reduction. Endangers the atmosphere.
All problems are interconnected and ultimately lead to the threat of human self-destruction.
Ways to restore the harmony of nature and man
The consequences of a consumer attitude to nature are not optimistic. In this case, you need to look again at a person from the position of a rational beginning in nature.
The natural way to solve problems is to return everything that nature has given to man.
Is this possible in the present situation?
First of all, it is necessary to change the nature of interaction with nature and move from the immoderate consumer-technocratic use of its resources to rational interaction.
- Restoration of an array of forest plantations. Due to the introduction of state programs, it is possible to completely restore the green space.
- Recovery of the ozone layer. Now a program is being developed to solve the problem at the level of interstate integration.
- The energy supply of mankind should be carried out through new methods and the development of new energy sources (atomic, solar).
- Combining efforts at the world level and creating the principles of rational use of natural resources.
Ecological perspective
Hard to overestimate the importance of nature to man, since it is a condition and the possibility of its existence. Therefore, the only appropriate solution to all problems is to change a person’s self-awareness.
Solving the problem at the global level means not only the unification at the state level of world communities. The most important factor is the introduction of disciplines in the systems of preschool and school education in order to form a worldview on active participation in the conservation of natural resources. Only with a large-scale approach is it possible not only to save, but also to compensate for everything that nature has given to man.