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What´s missing in our environment? (2019)
Summary
This reflective essay on ecology and environmental awareness discusses what has been lost and what challenges face modern society in relating to the natural environment. It is a philosophical piece with no primary scientific data on microplastics.
Ecology, as science of our Environment (Old-Greek: „oikos“ = the house, „logos“ = the word, the science) is with Human Being since his first appearance. What makes us today so clairaudient or even anxious is the knowledge, that the Human Being has developed technical abilities too efficient and without thinking about evolution and resources of our Nature. The soft ability of getting Information shows certainly our errors in last decades. Fortunately, our Ecology is able to fix clear sources and creators. We realised that we have generated our Climate Crisis by our own. We know already how we can prohibit bad dangers out of our heating of our Earth Environment. Even some, artificial created new materials (f. i. Plastic) are longer usable then the evolutionally developed ones of our Nature but we can’t recycle them without problems. So „Microplastic“ makes broad pollutions in our seas. Fishes eat them and die because that’s no food for them, some eaten chemical elements may have toxic follow ups as food for Human Beings. That are – genuine journalistic-commercial – the actually most horrifying catastrophic messages. Till now Ecology can´t start effective, worldwide strategies against Climate Change. Whole our Humanity – we have to think in that dimension – will start a common strategy only the last moment. A worldwide or even regional consensus is actually starting. We are bound to our descendants. Irresponsible or single persons only don´t care about this. The Human Being is in rare cases suizidal.
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