Global warming continues, species are dying out, the pollution of the environment increases, unspoilt nature and wild animals, once sources of risk and part of the world of the people, by and by the rare photo opportunity, and disappear from everyday life. They are discussing whether and to what part of the man-made climate change, is who can be held liable for contamination, which animals are saved. But one can not discuss nor deny: our environment is changing. And it is changing faster than they are during the lifetime of people has ever done.
why there have been about fifty years, a movement that has been the preservation of nature and has taken on the task in the course of that time, more and more supporters. The objectives of the environmental movement are clear, the reasons for its emergence varied. Since the one was the revolt against the conservative, more and more on the environmental and the human-made profit motive cifically state power, especially in the United States. There was a growing gap between rich and poor in the countries between the poor and the rich countries themselves and the resulting hatred of the industry and the rich at the expense of the environment, prosperity assured. The proximity of the people who clung to old and obsolete values of this same industry and the need to distance themselves from them - be it the environment or for the sake of a progressive mindset. Or just pure idealism, born of the belief that nature would be something worth protecting, or general information worthy of protection because it was the man entrusted by God.
But for what? How will an increasing proportion of mankind the environment available in the form in which it is today, before 100 or even 1,000 years ago? This question arises with all the discussions on environmental pollution and conservation, hardly anyone. The Environment to preserve that seems somehow just right. Why the question of why no relevance is attached. However, I'm sure I'm not the only person who wants to catch a glimpse behind this way of thinking - it is in the public consciousness but now has become as common as the biblical "Thou shalt not kill." And that we should go in this entry too.
first I would just like to clarify the basis of all subsequent versions: the man does not degrade the environment, he just changed. He does not pollute but merely changes its composition. The changes we are in the environment can observe are neither bad nor good. They are simply nonexistent. Any further assessment, each rating is subjective and based solely on human vision. As this is our only point of view, the boundaries between change and deterioration blurred all too quickly. This article will stand out from the general tenor, which also connect any media. Even in serious news programs, documentaries and discussions will be considered, dramatized and reported only that one just, humane perspective. What I want to blame anyone, since those items are made by people for people.
However, as I impressed by the scientific methods for obtaining knowledge very am, above all the already by the evidence of the relativity theory never fully achievable goal of the objectification of the world, I will try below to leave the circle of human-subjective perception by outside a glance to raise the events.
you leave so the time frame of the man who thinks in terms of months, years and decades. The spatial dimension of man, which is measured in meters and kilometers. The mindsets of the people, which naturally provides each observation with a score. So the first conclusion is that imposes itself: everything is changing. Always have. And until the End of all existence. To illustrate some examples.
Time:
An important reason why most people shy away from drastic changes, the time frame in which human life takes place. done based on nature in a few years, not many changes and those that take place actually go, often in much more drastic change of the seasons. Longer, intergenerational changes, however, are hardly noticed. What is normal for us now terrified our grandparents, what was considered normal was three generations earlier absurd. And so what we now take for granted in the future, probably for nostalgic Feelings or make a disparaging smile. This statement is even clearer when you go to the extremes. In about four billion years our galaxy with Andromeda will "collide". At first this sounds terrible, especially as our neighboring galaxy is moving with over half a million miles an hour on us. But they will need at this speed close to 200 million years, until it crosses the galaxy completely. Moreover, it will probably be no collisions between several hundred billion stars in each of the two galaxies, because the distances are vast in size between the individual stars. On the other hand, we have numerous enzymes in our bodies, which are vital to our survival and every single second - even now - but allow thousands reactions. My point? Our perception and life span are pushing against a stop and no one will ever capture these processes in their dynamics. But change is there, not whether we perceive it or not.
Space:
We move our arm 40cm to us to scratch between his legs, 4 meter run to the toilet, 4 to 40-kilometers to our job and fly 400-4000 km in the holidays. Some lucky ones have already flown the nearly 400,000 miles to the moon - but more was yet no human being, even this distance has nothing to do with our daily lives. The 150 million miles to the sun one can only imagine the absurd computer games and the latest on the forty trillion sechshunderteinundachzig billion four hundred forty million kilometers to the neighboring star stops any imagination. And this is only the direct cosmic environment, the threshold of the universe. The other way around the continents move - and in about four centimeters year. That is about 0,000.007.610 centimeters and the diameter of a single virus per minute. In our lives we simply come with such a small and large scales not in contact, so we take it is not true. And so we cling everything that moves in this scale, with all of our actions, thoughts and values.
we do not we make a significant discovery: the world is changing. Constantly. In every small or large unit of time inconceivably many processes taking place at all length scales everywhere in the universe. Changes are not only normal but are among our reality, whether we perceive it or not.
So far away from our familiar human perception window should not be too difficult for us, even the subjective, subject to our everyday way of thinking about board and adapted to recognize that we humans define the universe only a short Flashes on a small rock somewhere in space, in reference to a chemical reaction, a seemingly eternally existing, immovable and giant structures are.
With this knowledge and a little less human-related, objective point of view, we return to familiar climes, our existence on earth. And to what we call nature and consider worthy of protection.
And there are now only once a cut, I have noticed to have lost the thread and probably sleep one or the other night it must, I like the bow back to CO2 reduction, the Greens and the supposed end of the world ... get a good night!
