The story is told from the destruction of Chernobyl. This is an accidental human tragedy, but behind such man-made injuries there are even more heinous behaviors that destroy the ecosystem. Taking the population, atmospheric carbon content and the declining amount of wilderness data from the 1950s as the main line, it tells the impact of human production and living activities on forests, oceans and climate in the past 100 years. Technology promotes the progress of human civilization, and nothing can stop human development. Mankind has entered a high-speed and precise operation mode, just like a factory production line. We operate the earth to make it a circulatory earth for the survival of mankind. We are using our intelligence to fight against the way of operation of nature. This result is the result of human pursuit of efficiency, benefit and enjoyment. The author only talked about the changes in the ecological environment in which humans live, but I think that the evolution and development of the human organism, genetic inheritance, and healthy immune systems are really problematic in such an environment. The epidemic that killed millions of people is the best example. 2/3 talked about the ecological changes and how it became like this. When the worries fell to the bottom, the father brought hope to restore the ecology by reducing fertility, replacing fossil energy with renewable energy, and replacing meat with vegetarian food. A few examples have boosted confidence: Palau’s fishing ban has brought about improvement and restoration of the local ecology, and the Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries, but it has maximized the efficiency of land use to become a food exporter. Finally returned to Chernobyl. After thirty years of no one stepped in, the entire city has been healed naturally and has become a forest of rare animals. Nature is nature!
Human beings are very small in the face of history and nature. The life we have to live throughout our lives seems to deviate more and more from the original, with more and more needs. In the past, it was only necessary to meet the survival and physiological needs, but now it is more social needs. Getting married at the right age, buying a house in the current period, and being in debt for half a lifetime is the standard for most people to spend their lives. Exploring the world and experiencing adventure has become a luxury behavior, that is, three or four days of annual vacation leisure travel a year, yearning and yearning for pastoral life. That being said, time cannot go backwards, nor can life go backwards. If you really live a primitive life in the mountains, rivers and forests, you no longer have the ability to survive.
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