Blog 5

Taking a look at the steps we have taken today torwards repairing the damages we have cause to our environment, it would appear that we are taking a "shallow" approach. Technological advances such as fuel efficient cars and longer lasting light bulbs or whatever else are not solutions to our environmental, but merely slowing adding to the problems. Today's society is increasingly ignorant when it comes to the environment and unwilling to address the issue because the problems are not an easy fix. If we were to see the issue for as serious as it truly is we would need to not only slow down damages but completely stop them. This is the "deeper" sollution that would ultimately solve the environmental problems. We have become inclined to dominate nature rather than live symbiotically with it and our domination is ultimately going to ruin the environment for everything. Notice above I refered the the environment as "the environment", the syntax is there to communicate that sense of Schietzer's "biotic equality", because it is true no one organism is more entitled to the earth than another. Human kind is not suoerior to the others; in fact, we are all equally dependent on one another and if the earth continues the environmental spiral, all organisms with suffer horribly (not just humans). If the earth truly want to solve the issues plaguing the environment, the first step is to address the issue as it is: a large problem. And second, it canno tbe something we put a little effort into here and there, if the problem is to be fixed it must have "consistent global thought". The "shallow" solutions will not fix the environmetal issues today, the only way to fix the issue is through Naess' "deeper" approach.