The relationship between humans and nature
Declaration of Dependence declares that all men are created equal. However, the laws can guarantee human rights , by whom can the nature rights be protected? The Outlook of Scientific Development requires that we should pursue the harmonious coexistence between human and nature. Actually , that is just the relationship between human and nature.
Human beings live in a natural world, developing nature and harnessing nature. At the same time, they are also exerting influences on nature. This influence has become more and more obvious as humans’ productivity increases rapidly. Beyond any doubt, we must now admit that the influence is mostly negative, that is to say that we are achieving development at the expense of destroying the natural environment. Is this the path we must take? From the point of view of Marx's dialectical materialism, it is clear that this is an extremely erroneous view of the relationship between man and nature. This extensive approach, regardless of the development of future generations, is necessarily unsustainable.
we must adhere to the correct concept of harmonious relations between man and nature. So the current problem is that how can we establish a correct view between man and nature and achieve a better development of mankind instead of detours and wrong roads?
The answer I suppose is that We must learn to fear and respect nature and reject the erroneous perception of anthropocentrism. Since the emergence of humans, there have been traces of human activity on the earth. By using ourselves own powerful wisdom, mankind has achieved unprecedented productivity growth in the 20th century, which created splendid industrial civilizations, and delivered light, warmth, convenience to every corner of the world. However, with the rapid development of economy and society, such a strong practice of occupying and enslaving everything and attempting to dominate the nature has resulted in the massive exploitation of natural resources, which leads to the severe destruction of the ecological environment. Humans have unilaterally emphasized the need to transform nature and conquer
nature. For this reason, the natural world has paid too much for it. The growth of population and the excessive use of natural resources all lead to an imbalance between man and nature. The development of science and engineering technology also pose a great threat to nature. As a result, nature has launched frantic revenge on humanity.
Economic development is certainly necessary, but environmental protection should not lag behind economic development. Both should and can be synchronized. In contemporary China, if we choose the development path of “control after pollution first”, the price to be paid in the future will not only be the cost of “post-control”, but some precious natural resources and beautiful natural landscapes may never be able to restored. Therefore, sustainable development is what we should insist on, and it is the correct relationship between man and nature.
In short, human beings use their own practical activities to influence and transform the natural world, in which the natural world continues its own existence and development in new forms. At the same time, nature also affects human survival through environmental changes. Therefore human beings cannot violate the laws of nature and transcend the endurance of nature to transform nature, conquer nature, and destroy nature. By adhering to the laws of nature and insisting on the correct methodology to understand nature as well as transform the world, only in this way can human be able to live in harmony with nature and create a more splendid human civilization.