Harmonious Awareness of Ecological Civilization

DOI

10.2991/iccte-16.2016.121How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Harmonious Awareness, Ecological civilization, The Year of the Flood

Abstract

Environment protection is very important for all of us. Ecological balance and environmental protection do not by all means depend on technology. The essence lies in human understanding of nature and the concept about human development. The scholars in Humanity play a more important role than scientists to call on human beings to control their personal desires and destructive nature. The idea will stop up the origin of the destruction to environment. Margaret Atwood is such a person. She published her latest ecological apocalypse book The Year of the Flood to show her deep concern about the ecological crisis. This book uses significant biblical images such as the Noah's ark in the flood, Ararat, and the story of Adam and Eve to warn humans to care for our environment. She criticizes developmentalism and anthropocentric tendencies. She also warns that humans should not exploit nature simply because of its regenerative capabilities, ideas which are similar to the ideas of Laozi and Zhuangzi of China. Furthermore, she points out that high-tech processes, such as gene experimentation, is also against natural laws. These behaviors would eventually lead to an uncontrollable and global disaster. Atwood expresses her ecological warning in her works: if human beings do not change their cultural and development models to give more attention to environmental ethics and pay respect to nature, humans will be the main cause of their demise.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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