Soft Ecologist Response to Cornucopian Week 4

Maasai tribe in Africa (SOFT ECOLOGIST)

        We have read what Cornucopias have to say about the Aldo Leupold point of view. Mainly they defend the idea that there are resources provided to us to use and in many places of the world, resources such as fossil fuels and oil production sustain more than their daily survival, they provide economic inputs in order for them to develop and move forward. We as soft ecologist see that what Cornucopian defend is same statement all along, they jut sustain the fact that economy could not go on without the use of resource that the world provide us. On the other hand we do agree that nature should be preserve but not thanks to its biodiversity, instead it needs to be preserve but emphasize on human actions in order to avoid damages. We don´t sustain the point of view that the economic system and the sustainability as a whole is base on human resources, because human are not the essential of life, instead nature provides what we need to survive.

 

   

Amish is a soft ecologist group that survives in the planet without forcing the environment to give them more. They put the environment as a priority over all. By looking at the graph above we can tell that the Amish population in Canada and in the US has doubled in the past 20 years therefore, by looking at the statistics we can conclude that the Amish population will continue to increase creating a future that will be sustained by the natural environment. The cornucopias are expecting the future to develop technology and that way sustain the human beings, however if the soft ecologist communities increase technology will not be able to adapt to their way of living. That is why we as soft ecologist believe that we should use sustainable resources  today if we want to exist in the future. In the second graph above it is shown that the Amish population will continue to grow as seen in the graph in the year 2050 we will have 939 settlements, once again we need to live sustaining our environment if we want to live as a community with the rest of the world.

The image above is a representation of how we are destroying our planet. If we do not live as soft ecologist we wouldn't have a sustainable future. If we do not take care of our environment today we will not have a future because we wouldn't be able to survive. The cornicopians think that technology will be able to keep as a live but not in planet earth. We have to be conscious that we are destroying it today!  

The graph above shows how the population will continue to increase. As we said in our first response as population increases so does the environmental demands. As both of this factors increase the carrying capacity of the the world decreases and we wouldn't be able to survive in the planet. The graph above predicts that in the year 2040 the worlds population will reach the 9 billions. As soft ecologist we believe that if the population will increase so drastically we need to safe resources and use them consciously in order to have resources for our future. If we save our planet today we will have resources to survive in the future. If we don't have a place to live on no technology will be able to save us.
   In fact, cornucopian response to week four includes a graph about crude oil prices since 1861, were they mention about the price increase. This fact, from our point of view does not sustain any reliability about the use of technology in our environment, since extracting crude oil from the ground to later use for certain manufactrue process is going againts out philosophical views. Reading Cornuopians response, we can found several contradictions towards Aldo Leopold´s points of view. Howver their data used to support basically relies on graohs abour resources, demand and supply in terms of economcis; which totally contradicts our thoughts since this economic systems are not neeed for our daily lifes. Inhat dividuals need to change their minds and understand that in order for humans to live a pleasant life they only need from basic needs, there´s not the need of manufactures product, neither process ones.