With human intervention, 1 19 species of mammals and 139 species of birds that lived with Xunzi before 2000 have become extinct, and one third of them have become extinct in the past 50 years. It can be seen that the rapid expansion of population is at the expense of the extinction of a large number of biological species. Scientists estimate that there are 406 endangered mammals, 593 birds, 209 reptiles, 242 fish and countless other lower animals in the world. By the end of the 20th century, it is estimated-only estimated: one fifth of the living creatures in the world will probably leave our world forever!
Of course, you can't blame Xunzi. Two thousand years ago, Xunzi's mind was haunted by the touching story of the goddess mending the sky and filling the sea with jingwei, so he boldly shouted "Man can conquer nature". But when he looked around and saw that human beings had not yet entered the primitive farming in feudal society, how could he imagine the extent of the damage to nature when human beings really played "mastering their destiny and using it"? There are too many things that he didn't expect: increasingly serious environmental pollution, soil erosion and desertification, the reduction of green vegetation, the greenhouse effect and the destruction of the ozone layer ... We shouldn't blame Xunzi, but who should we blame?
Let's put the cross of confession on the chest of "human"!
The above phenomenon is only part of the consequences caused by mankind's unlimited access to natural energy. Every member of modern industrial society consumes hundreds of times more energy than people 300 years ago. The purpose of developing production in the national economic sector is to meet the growing material and spiritual needs of the people to the greatest extent. Therefore, the improvement of labor productivity means the acceleration of human consumption of natural resources. If we continue to adhere to the law of "man can conquer nature", the speed will be too fast and the natural resources will not be given a chance to breathe, then the earth will be unbearable. For example, one acre of land will yield 1000 kg of grain this year. If we plant year after year and don't put in new energy, the output will inevitably decrease. 25 cm thick topsoil will be eroded to the point where it can't be cultivated for decades. American agriculture began to implement "fallow" precisely to avoid this consequence.
Human eyes began to turn to biotechnology. However, technology should not destroy the organizing principles of the biosphere. In the past, people overestimated the role of technology, and combined this estimation with voluntarism to form a "conquest theory" of nature. "Man can conquer nature" has not adapted to the development of modern production. Thus, under the slogan "How bold people are and how productive the land is", the mountains and rivers whimper and the earth groan. In fact, Engels predicted this terrible ending long ago: "We should not be too intoxicated with our victory over nature, because every such victory naturally retaliates us."
Please note that we are on a "spaceship" floating in infinite space. At present, this spaceship has been riddled with holes. If our more than five billion passengers are "outraged", waving the axe of "conquering nature" and foolishly "fighting against the earth", can our spacecraft still sail safely? If we all compete blindly, will we be devastated? Imagine: because we want to conquer nature, we lose fresh air, clear morning, quiet lakes and green mountains, larks singing, peacock's color screen, bright moonlight and apes on both sides ... So, have we conquered nature, or has nature deprived human beings of their right to live? If the skin doesn't exist and the hair is attached, where will mankind go?
So, before we open up a new living space and master new energy technologies, please come and maintain this unique earth that we share!
Man can't conquer nature in the end, but he can make use of it. Only by following the objective laws of nature can human beings transform imperfect things into more perfect things. Just like Dayu's flood control, he didn't use artificial dams to "stop" floods, but chose appropriate methods to "guide" hundreds of rivers back to the sea. It seems that Taoism's "harmony between man and nature" should be the most appropriate portrayal of the relationship between man and nature.
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Environmental pollution makes human beings suffer.
Environmental pollution also makes human beings suffer. Let's look back at history and see how our predecessors were punished by nature. These are the eight world-famous public hazards.
1, Maas Valley Incident in Belgium: 1930 12, industrial harmful gases and dust discharged from Maas Valley Industrial Zone in Belgium have had a great impact on human body. Nearly 60 people died in a week, the death rate of heart disease and lung disease of citizens increased, and the death rate of livestock also increased greatly.
2. Smog incident in Los Angeles, USA: In the 1940s, a large amount of automobile exhaust in Los Angeles produced photochemical smog under ultraviolet radiation, which caused many people's eyes to be red and swollen, pharyngitis, respiratory diseases aggravated and thinking disorders.
3. Donora incident in the United States: 1984, 10 In June, sulfur dioxide and its oxides combined with atmospheric dust in Donora town, Pennsylvania, USA, causing serious air pollution, and 59 1 1 caused sudden illness.
4. Haze in London, England: 1952, 12 In February, more than 4,000 people died in London, England, and more than 8,000 people died two months later.
5. Minamata disease in Japan: From 1953 to 1968, in Minamata Bay, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, nearly 10,000 people suffered from central nervous system diseases because of eating fish and shrimp in the bay polluted by mercury-containing sewage, and more than 60 of them died of methyl mercury poisoning.
6. Exhaust gas incident in Niigata, Japan: 196 1 year, the exhaust gas produced by oil smelting and industrial fuel in Niigata, Japan seriously polluted the atmosphere, causing a sudden increase in the incidence of respiratory diseases, especially asthma, and forming a prominent environmental problem.
7. Pain in Toyama, Japan: From 1955 to 1977, people living in Toyama, Japan suffered from pain due to drinking cadmium-containing river water and eating cadmium-containing rice, and 258 patients were treated, of which 207 died.
8. Grain and oil incident in Aichi, Japan: 1963 In March, rice bran oil was mixed with polychlorinated biphenyls due to poor production management in Aichi, Japan. After people ate this polluted oil, more than 13000 people were poisoned and hundreds of thousands of chickens died.