Natural Alienation

Abstract

The world we live in today has forced a strange relationship between humans and the natural world. Humans procure nature to fit the needs of the masses, sometimes disregarding ethics in strange and alien ways. There is a constant strain between our dependency on mother nature and the egocentric relationship we share with her. As human beings, we tell ourselves that certain things are acceptable and sustainable but there are often two sides to the same coin. We live in a world with a wide variety of inhabitants. Earth is home to 7.8 billion humans, between 2.5 and 30 million different species, 195 countries, five climate regions, but only two kinds of environment: the geographical and the man-made.