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The Importance Of Nature In The Natural World

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The growing disconnect between modern civilization and nature has reshaped our roles and responsibilities to the natural world. Our relationship with our planet continues to transform. In order to preserve the natural world we must recognize what role it plays in our existence and re-evaluate our ethics towards our ecosystems. Like all living things, we are engineered to survive, and if our environment is slowly becoming inhospitable, then our efforts to reverse our negative impact should be second nature. However, an extreme disconnect between humans and the natural world has resulted in widespread dissociation with factors such as global-warming, diminishing resources, and pollution. This dissociation with the state of our planet, in part, has to do with the fact that these issues do not feel immediately threatening to a large percentage of the population. Recent efforts, however; have begun a movement to reverse our negative impact and promote a more environmentally sustainable way of life. Now, more than ever, we must realize how are species has negatively impacted the natural world and begin to modify our way of life to preserve the environment, the life it supports, and its breadth of virtues.

The most common argument to why we must care for the natural world is centered around the idea that our species cannot exist without it. This is referred to as ‘anthropocentrism’. The nature of this anthropocentric view-point leaves out what responsibilities we have to

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