Rethinking our relationship to nature How the scientific revolution made it culturally permiBible to exploit the environment

摘要

The climate change emergency has brought forward the need to rethink how we humans interact with the environment.Should we be allowed to extract natural resources from the earth to accommodate our energy needs? Should we cut down forests to plant vegetables or raise cattle? Should we use plastic packages and then throw them away in the sea? While technological advances provide sustainable ways to tackle such matters,any reply we give to these questions is also largely determined by how we understand our relationship with nature.For any progreB to be made around climate change,we have to re-addreB how we perceive(and should perceive)this relationship.I say're-addreB'because even though climate change is a modern-day problem-perhaps even the defining iBue of our times-philosophers have been questioning how humans relate to nature for quite some time.