Ecological Crisis: Change the World View

Today, people no more approach the environment with respect and reverence; no more recognize creatures’ interdependence and interrelationship. Man is more and more concerned about subduing the earth for his selfish motives, which results finally is his own self-destruction. The unbridled approach of modern science and technology stands as a causative and constitutive factor of the environmental crisis. This approach itself is caused by our partial worldview, that is; placing man as center; and he considers every thing for his needs. While placing himself at the center, he looks at the nature not as a partner in our common journey, but with a sense of lower degree. As a result, gradually the nature shows reaction to his attitude. He does not have the feeling that nature and himself belong to the same family. He neglects the value and meaning of present material cosmos, which are to be shared in our human destiny. With this attitude, he uses and abuses the nature; gradually the integrity of all creation is destroyed. Because the concern is only for man.
Man thinks only of his rights and emphasizing more on his value. The question of intrinsic dignity or worth attributed only to human beings and all other things are at his disposal. This type of thinking encourages people to use and abuse the nature according to his interest. His interest does not consider the moral principle or future generation. Thus one can say that “the ethics of autonomy which entered on the individual ignored the essential relationality of human person on community and integral relationality to nature.” Due to this failure of being and acting in the symbiotic relationality of human and nature; we face today frightening ecological disaster.

Ecological Crisis
Fire, water, air, earth and space are the basic elements needed for life. These elements contribute to the maintenance of life both in their individual capacity and in their interdependence. Functioning together, they constitute into one complex system which us technically called environment. This environment is a complex ecological system, which consists of both biotic and abiotic components. These components interact with each other. Land, water, plants, animals and humans in this system are linked by a complicated web of interconnections. But, this interconnectedness and inter-relatedness of all living and non-living form is broken today with a steady scientific progress, the humans acquired. As a result man began to use unique powers over the nature and to manipulate the environment according to what he wanted. A deeper analysis of the ecological issues in our concrete life situation will show the seriousness of the crisis.

Nonrenewable use and abuses of natural resources
The nonrenewable use and abuses of natural resources creates an energy crisis today. The renewable and the nonrenewable are the sources of energy. But today the massive industrialization by the ever-developed countries increasingly involves the depletion of non-renewable sources. Renewable success of energy like trees, water, fossil fuels cannot be replenished that easily. The development of coal, oil and gas cannot be find as an alternative. The modern man must realize that his undue use of these resources means an unconsidered disruption of important links between individual components of the biosphere, destroying its life support systems and energy storage of millions of year.