“A Perspective of Environment”

     In the “natural world” of environment, all living organisms reside in a specific place, with each species performing its specific functions, for a specific set of reasons. These reasons are interconnected to geographic location, geologic past and present, topographic features, climate patterns, and soil and water conditions. Besides the effect of natural events over time, such as volcanic activity, continental plate movements, “ice ages”, etc., that have been occurring throughout the earth’s 4.7 billion year history, the human species has been altering these conditions since the onset of civilization. In other words, we have been interrupting the intricate mechanisms that have maintained the “balance of life” in nature.

     Therefore, the essence of today’s environmental concerns, especially with the intensity we have been altering the “balance” since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, is an apparent need to educate the masses toward awareness and understanding of the ecological complexities at work in our fragile planet’s ecosphere.

M.S. Bernarsky

September 2003