ENV100H1 Study Guide - Species Problem, Thomas Berry, Henry David Thoreau

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Martha Shaffer

Document Summary

Technology and the healing of the earth thomas berry reading. Most basic human issue is the human-earth relationship. 20th century has eliminated the terror of the unknown darkness of nature by devastating nature herself. Our ultimate failure as humans is to become the instrument of degradation. The earth has become despoiled by the human presence in great urban population centers. Whereas the infrastructure of nature continually renew themselves from within, our infrastructures dissolve in the corrosive acids of the environment. We have finally achieved the capacity to determine on an extensive scale where the basic life systems of the earth will live or die. We are more aware of the larger consequences of our actions, the real price we are paying for the technological-industrial processes that presently envelop our world, but still don"t give them enough attention. Since the rise of agriculture, humans have been putting a certain stress on the natural world.