Efforts to Preserve the Environtment

Environmental issues are always audible. Incident after incident experienced in the country has had a huge impact. Not a few losses experienced, including human life. However, the question that needs to be asked, is this experience enough to make people aware of their mistakes? Or do humans actually feel more comfortable with avoiding and saving themselves by not providing better and more appropriate solutions? Many efforts should be made by humans in an effort to preserve the environment. The effort in question is an effort to reconcile, change the concept or understanding of nature and instill a culture of conservation.

Environmental damage and its effects continue and occur. Humans tend to cry over their fate. Gradually the cry for fate was forgotten and considered a passing gust of wind. The scars of crying due to the effects of the environmental damage he experienced are only a memory to be told. However, keep in mind that it is not enough if humans are only limited crying over his fate, but in fact never realized that all these events were the result of behavior and actions that needed to be corrected and changed.

Every natural event and occurrence caused by environmental damage is a sign that humans must be aware and change. Reconciliation efforts become a positive contribution that needs to be realized. Without an attitude of reconciliation, natural events as a result of environmental damage will only become a constant experience.

Then, human efforts to always avoid the consequences of environmental damage should not be understood as a mere convenience. However, this opportunity became the starting point for starting a change. Changes to prevent and minimize larger effects. So, the attitude of reconciliation on the part of humans can enable him to make changes for the sake of comfort in the midst of his environment.

One of the root causes of environmental damage is a shift in human understanding of nature. Various facts of environmental damage that occurred in the country are the result of a shift in human understanding of nature. That perspective lead to wrong and dangerous actions. For example, the concept of nature as an object. This concept gives an indication that humans tend to use nature arbitrarily. Human actions and behavior in exploring nature continue to occur without being accompanied by a responsibility that nature needs to be preserved in its integrity and sustainability.

Many animals that should be protected have become victims of irresponsible human hunting. Illegal logging that occurs can no longer be dammed. Pollution of soil and water has become a habit that continues to be carried out. Air pollution is not realized that it contains harmful toxins. So, nature is an object that is continuously exploited and used by humans.

Based on these fact, a new concept change is needed. The concept in question is to see nature as a subject. The concept of nature as a subject means that humans in using nature need awareness and a sense of responsibility. Here, humans should be able to appreciate and use nature effectively and wisely in their lives. For example, Papuans understand nature as a mother who gives life. This means that nature is seen as a mother from which humans can obtain life. Therefore, the act of destroying the environment has indirectly damaged life itself.