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FNBE 0814 ELEMENT OF NATURAL & BUILD ENVIROMENT FOO ZHI FUNG (0320226) TAYLOR’S UNIVERCITY LAKESIDE CAMPUS

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FNBE 0814

ELEMENT OF NATURAL & BUILD ENVIROMENT

FOO ZHI FUNG (0320226)

TAYLOR’S UNIVERCITY LAKESIDE CAMPUS

Nature is the world around us, except for human-made phenomena. As humans are the only animal species that consciously, powerfully manipulates the environment, we think of ourselves as exalted, as special. We acknowledge that in an objective view we are merely one of many organisms, and that we are not able to survive outside of our natural world of air, earth, water and life. But we tend to be poor leaders in the "hierarchy" of animal life. Despite our greatness, too often we waste, we fight, and we breed, and are too self-centred and short-sighted. I take note of the increasing awareness of ecology, at least in Western culture, and am heartened. We may still change our weapons of war into tools of peace, and our habits of despoliation into nurturing.