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.