Summary The relationship between people and the environment has always been about ones level of responsibility. No matter what your belief, each and every one of us is responsible for how we use the resources this planet provides. Personal Responsibility Webster’s definition of environment is, “the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (as climate, soil, and living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival”(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/environment). There is a working relationship between the environment and the human race. Resources, such as timber and oil for housing and heat, soil for farming, animals for food and for research testing just to name a few.
Wendell Berry, in his essay “In Distrust of Movements” say, “Over the last twenty-five or thirty years I have been making and remaking different versions of the same argument. It is not “my” argument, really, but rather one that I inherited from a long line of familial, neighborly, literary, and scientific ancestors. We could call it “the agrarian argument.” This argument can be summed up in as many ways as it can be made. One way to sum it up is to say that we humans can escape neither our dependence on nature nor our responsibility to nature-and that, precisely because of this condition of dependence and responsibility, we are so dependent upon and responsible for human culture”(Muller, Gilbert H., and Harvey S. Wiener. (2009) To the Point: Reading and Writing Short Arguments. New York City, NY: Pearson Education, Inc,).
“Humans have a responsibility to take proper care of the planet in order to ensure preservation and conservation for present and future inhabitants. While individuals may feel their personal contributions will not make a significant impact, the collective efforts will