The Psychology Behind Our Environment
" The degree to which we are all involved in the control of the earth's life is just beginning to dawn on most of us...meaning another revolution for human thought" (Thomas 195). This quote was taken from Lewis Thomas's essay Natural Man in which he discusses the way in which humans unknowingly have got themselves involved in the happenings of the environment. I found this quote to be particularly interesting as it sets up a strong claim that would later be dissected throughout the essay. Which are humans constantly are debating about the hazardous conditions they live in and that our environment is in danger due to pesticides, pollution, extinct species, etc. But they do not realize that these very same issues are caused only by humans and that they are also involved in the reasons of destruction in the environment. Thomas proceeds to elaborate his argument off this ‘claim’ that I used as my quote. His prose is agreeable to only a certain extent. Where most of his...