“We are now the dominant feature of our own environment” (Thomas 916). Lewis Thomas argues the affect of humans on the environment and the implications associated with humans' influence in nature.
Humans are starting to completely take over the environment that we live in. Yes, it is an environment that we, as people, live in and develop through our influence. However, it is also an environment in which several other species of plants and animals live in and are trying to survive and maintain their roles in nature as well. In our world today, the environment has suffered various times because of people's carelessness towards the nature around them. When an individual decides to litter plastic, for example, away instead of recycling it, it goes straight into the environment, harming an animal that happens to come across it. It is in humans' decisions and mindsets that our planet survives with everything healthy in it. When humans do not respect the other species that are equally as important to the world, the environment starts to lose its sense of compatibility, strength, and health. As nature used to be thought of as a beautiful representation of our world and all of the incredible elements of it, it is now completely changed by humans and is shown through the destruction of the environment and what it has become. With the influence of humans, we have affected the environment tremendously to the point where the purpose of nature and the environment around us has changed to become a demonstration of what people have done to the beauty that was once our world. We need to start taking more positive actions now, as a society, in order to save the future and environment.
