“The twentieth century saw nature through a different set of spectacle: the forms, processes, and values of modern economic order as shaped by technology.” (Page 293)
Our views on nature have always changed through the centuries. There are so many different views that people have on nature that it can be hard to truly understand what any of them mean. Does anyone really even know what is real? Our realities are completely dependent on what our beliefs are which makes knowing right from wrong quite really hard. Who is to say they someone who believes we are no longer part of the animal kingdom is wrong? Words are nothing without the meanings that we stick to them. However, in the last century, we have started to become more and more dependant on our values and morals to determine if what we do is just. Man in the twentieth century saw nature as another way to get power. Ecosystems everywhere where changing quite rapidly. Man did not truly care for the problems of the future, they wanted to expand today. Who can say if they were even aware of how such problems would be created. Technology is a key factor in our natural evolution. The ability to communicate and express ideas have always been the key factors in mans dominion. Since the time when the first forms of man started to develop opposable thumbs, humanity has been working collaboratively to make living easier and more comfortable. The twentieth century man was hardly different. Our ability to build on top of another generation’s knowledge should not be dismissed as anything more then our greatest ability. If other species could collaboratively rise and expand on future generations ideas, who know who the dominant species, would be? The twentieth century mans view on nature was simply that every plant formed a specific functions and is called Mechanism. This was very abstract compare to the current view we have on the natural world were everything is connected and feeds off of each other.