We are totally against the cornucopian’s point of view regarding human relationship with nature and technology. They state that humans depend on technology to survive and somehow it has created the idea that natural resources are irrelevant. Starting from the beginning nature is what sustains our life and what makes us survive. It is impossible to live depending totally of technology because technology is mainly created for the increase of production; meanwhile production is what gives meaning to technology.  Nature provides us with natural resources which are fundamental for our survival. For example: inhaling oxygen that comes from trees, or having drinkable water that comes from mountain glaciers. Also, our food reflects nature is our main source for life, since we it comes from animals and plants. Therefore, habitat has to be preserved since it is essential to our life and health; our food has to be in the best health conditions for us to eat it. Natural resources are fundamental for our life, and if humanity wants to increase their economy, there is no better way than by preserving nature, and taking care of the main natural sources they will use and from which they depend to increase economically. An example is oil, humanity has become completely dependent on this natural resource, which is nonrenewable and is used in excess. Oil has helped increased the world´s economy due to production, but it has contaminated the world´s nature as well. When extracting oil there is a certain procedure which has to be followed, and there is no way oil is extracted without destroying the nature that surrounds it for introducing the required technology to extract oil. Therefore, oil extraction has increased the world´s economy, but has contaminated the environment hardly. All the deforestation man does for extracting this natural resource destroys plant and animal habitats; in animals´ case, habitat loss can alter their reproduction since they can´t find the shelter to naturally reproduce, also it can alter their food source, meanwhile deforestation can drive animals to death due to their habitat loss. So, technology such as the one needed for oil extraction is fundamental for oil extraction procedure to be done successfully, but it harms nature brutally. Regardless oil extraction, oil itself has also contaminated the environment due to humans non precaution when transporting oil in ships. This means, those ships, as a technology of transportation are not well prevented nor used, since there are oil spills everyday in the world.

curnicoians response

We are totally against the cornucopian’s point of view regarding human relationship with nature and technology. They state that humans depend on technology to survive and somehow it has created the idea that natural resources are irrelevant. Starting from the beginning nature is what sustains our life and what makes us survive. It is impossible to live depending totally of technology because technology is mainly created for the increase of production; meanwhile production is what gives meaning to technology.  Nature provides us with natural resources which are fundamental for our survival. For example: inhaling oxygen that comes from trees, or having drinkable water that comes from mountain glaciers. Also, our food reflects nature is our main source for life, since we it comes from animals and plants. Therefore, habitat has to be preserved since it is essential to our life and health; our food has to be in the best health conditions for us to eat it. Natural resources are fundamental for our life, and if humanity wants to increase their economy, there is no better way than by preserving nature, and taking care of the main natural sources they will use and from which they depend to increase economically. An example is oil, humanity has become completely dependent on this natural resource, which is nonrenewable and is used in excess. Oil has helped increased the world´s economy due to production, but it has contaminated the world´s nature as well. When extracting oil there is a certain procedure which has to be followed, and there is no way oil is extracted without destroying the nature that surrounds it for introducing the required technology to extract oil. Therefore, oil extraction has increased the world´s economy, but has contaminated the environment hardly. All the deforestation man does for extracting this natural resource destroys plant and animal habitats; in animals´ case, habitat loss can alter their reproduction since they can´t find the shelter to naturally reproduce, also it can alter their food source, meanwhile deforestation can drive animals to death due to their habitat loss. So, technology such as the one needed for oil extraction is fundamental for oil extraction procedure to be done successfully, but it harms nature brutally. Regardless oil extraction, oil itself has also contaminated the environment due to humans non precaution when transporting oil in ships. This means, those ships, as a technology of transportation are not well prevented nor used, since there are oil spills everyday in the world.

Soft ecologists to cornucopians:

There is no need to use technology when we have something as wise as nature. The problems that are now a day on our environment are gas emissions, deforestation as you say. But all of these problems started because of the increase of technology. And we agree that technology should be wisely used, but people do not have the culture to use it that way. We also agree that the technological advantages have helped with tools that will clean the environment but is the least thing that they could do if they are the once that started. Big industries have replaced human work with machines that need fossil fuels to work; the chemicals used for the crops are really risky for health and the amount of waste and garbage that humans have due to food is amazingly big. “In 2010, Americans generated about 250 million tons of trash and recycled and composted over 85 million tons of this material, equivalent to a 34.1 percent recycling rate .On average, we recycled and composted 1.51 pounds of our individual waste generation of 4.43 pounds per person per day.” (epa.gov)

“The truth is that the only essential to life is humans. Without humans the world would not be what it is, and would never become the thing it is now”

This is what you are saying and for us it is ironic for you to say this. In the only thing that we agree with you is that without humans the world would not be the way it is, but sadly humans have destroyed our world instead. We consumed the resources the world had for us in such an small period of time that we altered natures normal cycle. 

For example in these graphs we can see the total urban solid waste that we make domestically commercially relaying somehow in technology. as we can see the comercial and industrial part of the graph is the one that most contaminates with a 45% since it is powerful because of the technological advances and supplies that we have now a days. 

Work Cited: 

"Municipal Solid Waste." EPA. Environmental Protection Agency, n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.

"Google." Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.

environmental managers pollution management model demonstration

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGERS

POLLUTION MANAGEMENT MODEL

Humans have polluted the environment through the process of extracting needed resources in order to further develop  our economic well-being we are found upon.  This realization has led us to construct pollution management models in order to create awareness of the situation, and in turn, appeal to ethical and moral duties to the environment.  The PPM model seeks to manage pollution in a three step complex process: replace, regulate, and restore. Replace seeks to replace the problem with outside sources of help. Regulate seeks to the implementation of norms to stop or reduce harming pollution emissions. And finally, restore, seeks to fixing it.

Model as follows:

Process of pollution                                                                               strategies for reducing impacts

Human activity producing pollutant	Replacing strategies
Release of pollutant to environment	Possible regulation
Impact on environment	Restore options

That being said, it is vital to state that these actions show concern towards the environment.  And that it has emerged due to the realization that human dependence on the environment is inevitable. In addition, this proves that human concern on the system rather than on individual things is being performed, just as Aldo Leopold stated in his essay “The land ethic”

works cited

"Environmental Impact Statement." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Online, 2013. Web. 10 Apr. 2013

Talbot, Lee M. "Environmental Economics." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Online, 2013. Web. 10 Apr. 2013.