Island
Civilization Reflection
Imagine a world where the Earth has been choked by
overpopulation of the human race. That
could one day be a reality based on Nash’s Island
Civilization. The article suggests
that the division of civilization and the wilderness is becoming an increasingly
severe problem for the planet and everything that lives on it. Humans are the only life forms on Earth that
do permanent harm to their surrounding environment. The human race is progressing towards total
control of the environment. This planet
is a resource, a resource that we can not yet live without. The most important thing we have here is
diverse life, without which we could not survive. Only through major changes in human society
and responsibility can we save our future.
The Island civilization theory states that small pockets of human
civilization would live in spaced out “island” cities in order to allow the
wilderness to thrive once again. This
would work very well for the wilderness but would also be terrible for human
life as we know it today.
Based on the idea that the only salvation for the future
being an unimaginable decrease in human population, it would seem that the
outlook is not good. Our current society
is based on control of the outside environment.
With this pattern of throwing away, nature will not sustain life on this
planet. The best way to move forward on
this subject is to move away from nonrenewable resources and move towards more
sustainable power sources. That way we
no longer have to destroy the wilderness in search of more resources. Only by changing our behavior can we stop
ourselves from going down the path to extinction that we have paved for so many
other species. Now we are destroying
resources such as the rainforests without even using them.
I believe that some of the predictions in this article
could possibly be accurate for our future.
However, none of the options given for solutions are likely to please
current or future society. Unless better
solutions can be found, I believe that people will not put their hearts into
the change we need to save our future for our children. If we don’t, we are likely to end up in the
trash world situation discussed in the article.
We need to prevent this from happening.
We cannot let human evolution cause worldwide devolution of nature.
In conclusion, we can not go on living like
parasites. We have to change or the
world will change us, possibly by killing us from lack of resources. As the most intelligent species on the
planet, it is our duty to take care of our surroundings so that they will be
usefull to future generations of all life here.
Island civilization may not be the solution we need, but it is proof
that there are a few among us who are looking to our future. As it was said in the article, “now we are the
death star, but we are also capable of changing course.”
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