Research Paper on:
Earth's Fate

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conservationists have come to understand that environmental management means working with the environment, not controlling it, not maintaining it but envisioning it as an equal partner in its own survival.  As Jensen (1995) points out that it is essential that human beings make the choice to remove themselves from the cultures pervasive destructiveness and discover whether or not it  is possible to live another way. "We need to separate ourselves from our collective consciousness of the past arrogance of domination and subjugation that appears to be as natural,  as instinctive as the expansion of bacteria on a petri dish. Given that humans have been and continue to cause the greatest mass extinction of species in the history  of the planet, can there be hope?" (pp. 3). Any and every environment can support only a certain level of load placed upon it by its varied inhabitants. The  load consists of the resources the inhabitants consume, as well as the wastes they expel. When that consumption and waste load exceeds what the environment can tolerate, the environment,  quite simply, begins to break down. It is this very elementary fact that must be kept as the foremost component in our consciousness when considering environmental concerns and the  conservation of natural resources. Without such consciousness, the fate of the earth and humanity along with it is undeniably bleak. The first and most essential change that must  be made is to look at other choices available to humanity outside of continuous development and industrialization. Before it will be possible to change, it is important for humanity  to recognize that it does still have choices. Choices that are, perhaps, more in line with older, indigenous reverence toward nature. Up until now, the close of the