From Imbalance To Harmony

The relationship between human and nature is an aged topic, but it never fades. In ancient times, our ancestors holding nature in respect and awe, had no ability to change it so as to meet their needs, let alone became its master. So human could not help but adjust themselves to nature. Then in the age of agricultural civilization when human, overally speaking, made full use of or strengthen natural process in productive activities, and seldom changed nature radically, human and nature stayed in a state of preliminary balance. Striding into industrial society, human suddenly found the great power in themselves with the help of industrial civilization, enabling them match with nature. Since human armed themselves with science and technology, "march to nature" has been the representative of human power, by which human boldly exploited nature. This all resulted in population overgrowth, resource depletion, deterioration of living environment, large scale and universal crisis posing threat to human survival. Being the obvious symptom of the unbalance of human and nature, ecologic crisis reflects the crisis of human mind. From the viewpoint of values, what contributed to this unbalance were human—centered nature outlook, hedonism on life view, scientificnism on reason outlook, utilitarianism on moral value and consumerism gradually developed by human since the industrial society. To overcome the plight caused by the unbalance and get rid of the troubles of ecologic crisis, human must try to build a harmonious and intimate relationship by reflecting on civilization values with ecologic consciousness, adjusting the relationship of human and nature with the mind of equality, transforming , outlook on moral, life, and holding nature in respect.