ady a large number of sub-species of animals and plants have been killed. This is causing Biodiversity losses of unknown proportions. Also when you cut down large amounts of forest they don’t grow back that fast if ever and this accelerates the rate of “desertification.” (Bugge 2)When talking about man destroying nature the person with the most to say is Charles Darwin. In his book Natural Selection Darwin has a problem when man makes the selection instead of letting nature take its slower but “truer” course then man’s inferior way of selecting what should and what should not survive. Man’s way of selecting is inferior because man’s selections are only beneficial to him and usually only apply for a short period of time while “natural selection” is very slow but in the end usually benefits the world as a whole (Darwin 440). These views of Darwin lead me to believe that Darwin would be against both sides of the argument due to the anthropocentric views taken by both sides. In the long run he would want the environmentalists to be victorious because it would make a smaller impact on nature by not cutting down the Amazon....
