Arne Ness' deep ecology

In religion and English we have worked with Arne Ness and causes of pollution. Arne Ness thought that people have to treat every living organism the same way. All humans are parts of the nature, and trees and ant have the same rights to grow up as humans have.

    The way people live today ruin the wildlife and their natural habitats. One important thing we can do to change this, is to stop hunting just for fun. Today overhunting is a seriously threat to wildlife. A well known example is unnecessary hunting for horns and tusks from elephants and rhinoceros. This is not something people have to do for living. Supporters of the deep ecology think that we have to ask us self, is everything we do important? Is it essential for us? Can we live without it? If we can live without it and it destroys the nature or the habitats for some other organism, we have to stop. Do not have fun on others expense. We have to put us in their position. Will we be treated like that? Do we want to lose our home? Further, it is important to stop using animals to test new consumer goods. Animals do not deserve this treatment.

 Animals that live in the rainforest are threatened by the deforestation, and people can help so much by doing so little. According to Searching 10, 75 000 trees can be spared each week by recycling the Sunday edition of the Ney York Times. If people all over the world start to recycle for example paper, this will help a lot. Imagine how this can help all the animals in the rainforest. If we don’t save the rainforest, there will be big changes in the climate. Furthermore, pollution is a big threat to wildlife. Chemical waste from big factories and normal people is destroying the quality of air, soil and water. This is also ruining for humans, because animals and plants give us a lot of food and other necessities. The chemical waste also causes holes in the ozone in atmosphere. Ozone protects us from the sun’s dangerous rays. There are already ozone holes over the North and the South Pole and this can spread.

As a conclusion I think that people have to change their way of living and listen to Arne Ness’ thoughts. He says many important things and the world will be changed if we don’t think of the environment.

Sources:

•  Horisonter 10
• Searching 10

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