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Abou Berete
English 2010
Professor Gary
11/28/2015
How Can We Live in Harmony the Nature
Much of human history has been written in terms of an ongoing struggle of "man against
nature." The forces of nature wild beasts, floods, pestilence, and disease -- have been cast in
the role of the enemy of humankind. To survive and prosper, we must conquer nature kill the
wild beasts, build dams to stop flooding, find medicines to fight disease, and use chemicals to
control the pests. Humans have been locked in a life and death struggle against "Mother Nature."
Weve been winning battle after battle. But, weve been losing the war.

We humans have killed so many "wild beasts" that non-human species are becoming
extinct at an unprecedented rate except in prehistoric times now labeled as global catastrophes.
Its clear that humans cannot survive nor might we want to survive as the only living species
on earth. How many more species can we destroy before we lose more than we can afford to do
without? How many more battles with Mother Nature can we afford to win?
Human health and the health of our planet is inextricably linked, we cannot separate it in
anyhow. The earth is our home, we must care about it like our life depend on it, when we harm it,
we harm ourselves. We all knows the danger that human been have been cause to our planet,
were after the money and forgot the source of our existence.
People have to learn to live in harmony with nature thereby protecting the environment
and other living beings that inhabit the earth, we are living in the midst of a great chemical
experiment, and some serious consequences are becoming apparent to scientists. More than two

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billion pounds of chemicals are spewed into the air each year. These chemicals are brewing a
disastrous stew, resulting in an atmosphere crisis. The greatest consequences of the atmosphere
crisis may be global warming and ozone depletion. If humankind wants to continue to inhabit
earth, then we must stop this horrid destruction of our own environment. The Earth appears to be
warming due to the greenhouse effect, Global warming is the predicted result of the greenhouse
effect, created by so-called greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, in the
atmosphere. The increase in these gases is thought to be caused by industrialization, especially
by the use of fossil fuels such as coal and oil. These gases act much like the glass in the
greenhouse. Nowadays, the earth is presenting drastic changes. There are different factors that
have influenced to provoke these changes. The man is one if not the main responsible. With the
modern world and its speed in which life is developed every day, the man may not sometimes
think of a long-term harm that is provoking. It has been recognized that human activity is slowly
increasing the atmospheric concentration of several gases that contribute to the greenhouse
effect. The greenhouse effect is the colloquial term to refer to enhanced global warming. The
greenhouse effect is what keeps the earth habitable, without the greenhouse effect the
temperatures would be too cold for human live. The science of global warming is inconclusive.
There's no doubt our planet is warming up. There is doubt as to whether and to what extent
human activity is the culprit....Responding to the warning of the scientific community,
governments around the world negotiated the Kyoto Protocol; an amendment to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international treaty on
global warming....The Protocol calls on countries to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the
chief gas contributing to global warming. Cuts are also required for five other greenhouse gases
by 2012. Those who can't make the cuts can engage in emissions trading." (Canada and the

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World Backgrounder) This article provides an overview of the Kyoto Protocol, debating the pros
and cons of the agreement, and examines Canada's lack of progress in reducing greenhouse gas
emissions since joining the Protocol process in 1997.
The claims of human-caused global warming are not corroborated, even by the scientific
studies on which they are supposedly based. The author, an atmospheric scientist, draws this
conclusion from his analysis of a host of studies on the issue. He maintains the claims of humaninduced climate change were "studiously crafted to induce the media to broadcast to the citizens
and policy makers of the world a message that few, if any, of the researchers on whose work it
was based, are yet willing to defend before the scientific community. The only question is how
quickly we can accelerate and complete the transition to a low-carbon civilization. There will be
many times in the decades ahead when we will have to take care to guard against despair, lest it
become another form of denial, paralyzing action. It is true that we have waited too long to avoid
some serious damage to the planetary ecosystem - some of it, unfortunately, irreversible. "
(Rolling Stone) This lengthy climate change article penned by former Vice President Al Gore
details the shift the planet is facing with, and how we must respond to it.

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Works Cited
Ellsaesser, Hugh W. "What Man-Induced Climate Change?." 21st Century Science &
Technology. Summer 1997: 61-67. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.
Gore, Al. "The Turning Point." Rolling Stone. Jul 3-Jul 17 2014: p. 84. SIRS Issues Researcher.
Web. 30 Nov. 2015.
Kyoto Protocol." Canada and the World Backgrounder (Waterloo, Canada) Vol. 71, No. 2. Oct.
2005: 3-32. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.