Closing Circle
Essay by 24 • January 11, 2011 • 469 Words (2 Pages) • 1,356 Views
“The Closing Circle”
Our environment and its organisms have a cycle that allows it to grow, to interact with other organisms, to reproduce and to die. As a whole, this may also be called the circle of life. The circle of life has a constant cycle that lets it live, adapt, evolve and flourish. In our case nowadays, our circle of life is disrupted. Pollution, over-population and misconceptions play drastically negative roles in the environment. Scientists try to solve these problems by means of technology but then they are slapped in the face with another problem that resulted from their previous solution.
The environment has a cycle that must not be broken. It may be disrupted but it needs time to recover and to adapt to the certain changes. Evolution will eventually take place and construct a blueprint of modification that allows life to live in agreement with unconstructive environmental factors, such as pollution. It is important that people change certain perception about the environment before it is too late for other life forms to recover and evolve.
People are the main reason for the imbalance and downfall of the environment. First, over-population causes the overexploitation of the environment. Production has to keep up with population growth. This results to the consumption of goods which will lead to waste and pollution. Waste and pollution is another significant factor of the destruction of the environment for it breaks the cycle and causes destruction. At the present time, most of the waste and pollution is brought by technology for technology generates an unwanted result, pollution. Technology, in a fragmented sense, successfully fulfils its purpose but then causes unwanted side effects or after results. People are too dependent on technology and artificial goods, in turn, pollution is magnified and the environment is severely damaged. Somehow, evolution
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