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The document discusses humanity's relationship with nature and the environment. It argues that while humans have manipulated the natural world for their own benefit, we must recognize that we are just one part of the complex ecological system and cannot survive without it. The poem "The Common Living Dirt" and song "Earth Song" both convey messages about the importance of appreciating nature and stopping its destruction. The document also discusses humanity's ethical obligation to protect the planet given that human activities are contributing to issues like global warming and harming other species.
![Nature is the world around us, the Earth’s natural environment that exists without human
intervention and man-made elements. As humans, we continually manipulate the
environment for our own benefit, on the base of feeling superior or all-powerful. It is
often forgotten that we are merely one of many organisms, and that we are not able to
survive outside of the natural world that we frequently neglect. We have lost the
appreciation and gratitude for the natural world we come from, and have been doing our
best to destroy it. In the poem “The Common Living Dirt,” Marge Piercy uses
descriptive imagery to convey the beauty of nature, and the idea that we must reconnect
and appreciate the dirt and land that we all came from. Similarly, Michael Jackson’s
“Earth Song” has a powerful message: stop the destruction of nature and society. Both
“The Common Living Dirt” and “Earth Song” address the sabotage of nature, however
Jackson’s song is more influential with its powerful,
Planet Earth is a magnificent place. In every single element of its makeup, from the
massive mountain ranges to the wide spread desert lands, there are millions of species
inhabiting the globe. Earth, and everything on it, was created by a chain of natural
events, evolving over millions of years, slowly defining ecology to a world of natural
abundance. Years into the future, nature will continue to change on its own, in ways
never fully understood by humans. Consider the changes that have already taken place,
such as the dinosaur era millions of years ago and their extinction. As the newcomers to
Earth, people have only lived here for hundreds of thousands of years. Science has
recently shown the human race is contributing to some of the changes the earth is
experiencing, such as global warming. The human species, therefore, has an ethical
obligation to protect the earth from harm because they are the cause for some of earth’s
problems, they have the ability to cause a change, and because the
First, the human race is contributing a great deal to the global issues by using natural
resources without replenishing the source quickly and abundantly enough. We cut down
millions of trees to use for lumber and paper, and it takes many years for them to grow
back. During the time it takes for a forest to replenish what are its inhabitants to do?
The plants and animals around the world are not damaging the environment; they have to
live in an environment that is constantly being disturbed by human existence. Plants and
animals are part of the ecological system suffering the effects of humanity. In “A
Special Moment in History”, Bill McKibben points out how the waste from a car engine
sits in our atmosphere. He says “When [gas] is burned in a car, about five and a half
pounds of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide come spewing o](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/publicspeakingnotes2-130120060604-phpapp01/85/Public-speaking-notes-2-1-320.jpg)
Public speaking notes 2
- 1. Nature is the world around us, the Earth’s natural environment that exists without human intervention and man-made elements. As humans, we continually manipulate the environment for our own benefit, on the base of feeling superior or all-powerful. It is often forgotten that we are merely one of many organisms, and that we are not able to survive outside of the natural world that we frequently neglect. We have lost the appreciation and gratitude for the natural world we come from, and have been doing our best to destroy it. In the poem “The Common Living Dirt,” Marge Piercy uses descriptive imagery to convey the beauty of nature, and the idea that we must reconnect and appreciate the dirt and land that we all came from. Similarly, Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” has a powerful message: stop the destruction of nature and society. Both “The Common Living Dirt” and “Earth Song” address the sabotage of nature, however Jackson’s song is more influential with its powerful, Planet Earth is a magnificent place. In every single element of its makeup, from the massive mountain ranges to the wide spread desert lands, there are millions of species inhabiting the globe. Earth, and everything on it, was created by a chain of natural events, evolving over millions of years, slowly defining ecology to a world of natural abundance. Years into the future, nature will continue to change on its own, in ways never fully understood by humans. Consider the changes that have already taken place, such as the dinosaur era millions of years ago and their extinction. As the newcomers to Earth, people have only lived here for hundreds of thousands of years. Science has recently shown the human race is contributing to some of the changes the earth is experiencing, such as global warming. The human species, therefore, has an ethical obligation to protect the earth from harm because they are the cause for some of earth’s problems, they have the ability to cause a change, and because the First, the human race is contributing a great deal to the global issues by using natural resources without replenishing the source quickly and abundantly enough. We cut down millions of trees to use for lumber and paper, and it takes many years for them to grow back. During the time it takes for a forest to replenish what are its inhabitants to do? The plants and animals around the world are not damaging the environment; they have to live in an environment that is constantly being disturbed by human existence. Plants and animals are part of the ecological system suffering the effects of humanity. In “A Special Moment in History”, Bill McKibben points out how the waste from a car engine sits in our atmosphere. He says “When [gas] is burned in a car, about five and a half pounds of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide come spewing o