Human Beings: The True Leech of Planet Earth
"We are now the dominant feature of our own environment" (Thomas 916) Mankind has slowly but surely become the parasitic dictator of the natural world, spreading an unseemly influence over the entire surface of our planet. In a twisted sense, we have indeed become the masters of nature itself, subjugating and civilizing it. We now run the Earth, contorting its nature to fit our every demand. The extent to which the human race has so easily declared dominance over the natural world is astonishing. As acres of rainforest are slashed down and unfathomable amounts of pollution fill our oceans, we are obligated to beg the question as to what has truly caused such mass destruction of the Earth. Are we taking over nature out of need or greed? Human beings have fought to survive from the dawn of time. We fought against the peril of sun and snow and learned the necessary skill of adaptation. We killed other living creatures for food and protection out of sheer necessity to survive...