Our Earth, birthed four billion years ago has existed to shape life for organisms that thrive among it, but as of recently there has been a massive disturbance. As stated by universetoday.com, humans have first came to existence 200,000 years ago, but were fully settled only 6,000 years ago. Despite settling only less than 10% of Earth’s life span, humans have contributed to the most damage inflicted to the Earth itself since its whole lifetime. Not only is it due to simple deforestation; humans have over mined Earth’s resources, reduced biodiversity and increased pollution dramatically. As of the past, humans were not educated so they initially survived based on their natural prime instincts, but as centuries flew by major problems began to …show more content…
Although it was not as hectic as it is today, humans did manage to substantially alter the Earth by quickly diminishing species and expanding their conquered land through deforestation. As humans exhaust resources within the land, they revert to different methods in which they can be able to sustain themselves. Being supported by the first reading, Entering a New World, it states, “For this New World civilization, it was deforestation and soil erosion that undermined agriculture.” (Brown 13). Providing significant evidence that problems have occurred since 250 A.D. and since then, humans have only managed to degrade the Earth in worse ways. Because of the lack of resources, these civilizations failed to thrive longer causing them to collapse, leaving only the seed of nature in its place. The Rapa Nui are indigenous people to Easter Island and thrived from 300 C.E. to the 1770’s. Although being isolated from any other location, the people managed to survive for so long before being weakened as time passed around. The ancient civilization did not think about the problem of deforestation, so they quickly chopped down the tallest palm trees in the world for lumber and exploited their resources until the end as it argues in the documentary, Home. The problems only seem to topple over one another creating even larger scenario’s and even more …show more content…
Because of industrialization the Earth took a turn for the worse due to the massive increase in CO2 emissions. Global warming now became an imminent problem and as of now, Plan B: Building a New Future, states, “In 1995, an intense heat wave in Chicago claimed more than 700 lives” (Brown 251). These heat waves never before have occurred, but due to the increase in greenhouse gases the atmosphere heats up causing a massive ramp in temperature. All this is a cycle that occurs. Humans begin expending resources given to us by the Earth, including deforesting a majority of the land which reduces the amount of oxygen produced and increases the amount of carbon dioxide because it can’t be absorbed. Surprisingly during WWII the United States manage to mobilize extremely quickly to transport their necessities as the article states, “From the beginning of 1942 through 1944, the United States far exceeded the initial goal of 60,000 planes, turning out 229,600” which is an incredible amount within the two years they designated(255). Humans have the potential to mobilize just as in the war, however they need a catastrophe to occur so they can mobilize similarly to the past. The ultimate resolve to this problem is through social