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We’re Part of Nature so it’d Never be Simple to Us
北师大环境学院本科04级 徐思
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Yes, I couldn’t agree more that the answer given by nature is rarely
simple. Mr. David Suzuki’s illustration of this issue forms a clear,
movie-like picture on my mind that if things go worse the human would
be like a boy with great physical power, but who’s so senseless or
intelligently disabled that he just isn’t able to work out what the
outcome would be before he dose what he wants. So he just does a thing
powerfully in one way and then finds out the bad results and turns
to another policy, the outcome of which could possibly also be devastating.
In this essay Mr. David Suzuki told us detailed things about invasive
species, the ecosystem of “skuas, other birds, fish and human”, etc.
He seemed to be discussing about some simple scientific issues about
the ecosystem, which might be available in our textbooks. But his
opinion is new and innovative that nature isn’t yet fully understood
and we still couldn’t predict exactly what would next happen in the
nature. His view reminds us that the nature is not as simple as primary
physical or chemistry experiments, nor does nature comply with rules
of financial capital fluency or Adam Smith’s “individual’s interest
serves the common good” or anything else. Nature is nature. It is
unique and it is never simple. It is not easy for human to fully penetrate.
So when we’re about to do something, we’d better think it off, again
and again, based on the fact that anything could happen and we should
be aware and ready for it. Then we shouldn’t massively increase or
decrease financial activities involving nature. Instead we can either
increase or decrease, only if we do it slowly, gently and in a really
small scale. So when anything happens we can turn and change in time.
Quite different from the beginning period of human’s Industry Revolution.
But I think it should be the style we deal with nature from now on-always
ready to change and always glad to compromise.
We’re so powerful but with comparably so superficial knowledge about
nature that before each step is taken we should think about it carefully
and cautiously. When great power is imposed with irrationalism and
has lost its direction, disaster is just on the way. Trying to present
this theme but making it much milder and gentler, Mr. David Suzuki
gave two simple examples to depict and explain some nature phenomena
and the inside connections and then left us readers to think about
it more by ourselves.
So then I got in mind what I’ve now written about.
We’re part of nature so it’d never be simple to us.
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