Friday, March 22, 2013

Soft Ecologist

Sof ecologists are a group of people who believe for nature to be a vital thing in our survival as a specie. However, unlike the deep ecologists, we don't see nature as something so fragile and sacred that can't even be touched. We believe that we can achieve a harmonious existence with nature by working together with it. To do this we need still to take things from nature and use it in our favor correctly. Our philosophy is quite similar to the native american view on nature in the sense we are discourage all the nonsense and stupid technological advances the rest of the world has. We believe that it is something that destroys our humane side and we prefer to live the way we do. The native americans believed that working together with nature was very important. They used to respect nature and understand that it was important to their own survival. They understood nature was fragile and all, however they still understood that they needed things from it to survive. The indians from the great plains used to follow the buffalo herds and by that way having a constant food source. they did respect the natural way of working but also understood that they needed to take somethings out of the environment in order to survive. Everything went perfect until the european pioneers appeared. They had a different vision of the envronment. They saw the environment as an unlimited source of resorurces that was ok to exploit for their own good. They had a mentality inherited from the roman empire that consists of exploiting every source off a place and then move to another with available resources. They were somehow like a bunch of parasites. The native americans were getting affected because the pioneers were takin there lands, hunting there buffalos and exploiting every natural resource



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