Henry Browne
Week 5
“every day , from sunrise until sunset, myriads of (plant) laboratories, factories, workshops and industries all the world over, on land and in the sea, in the earth and on the surface soil, are incessantly occupied , adding each its little contribution to the general fund of organic wealth….”- Reinheimer , Worsterp.291
This very industrial view of ecology relates to some of the ways we understand the natural process of life. To me relating nature to economics seems backwards. If anything we should relate economics to nature. After all not only did nature come first but the humane economy is merely a facet of nature and ecology. I think this goes further to show are ignorance in seeing everything in very humane centric ways. Despite my disagreement with the way it’s related I agree with general idea of the quote. The quote emphasizes the un importance of individual components and states our (or at least plants) sole roles to produce. With the way things are going it may not be bad to look at nature as an economy since we have it so alienated and removed. Humans have so much influence on nature anyway it will soon be a commodity. It is hard to say whether we should try to preserve nature by trying to abide its rules out by pushing are strengths to try to fix it. On one hand it’s by not abiding nature that we got into this mess but can we really go back. On the other hand are technological advances are what messed everything up but at this point is the best we can hope for is for us to charge on and hope science will save us before we destroy everything. We have already bitten the forbidden fruit what now?