Biodiversity issues related to cultural diversity.
Many cultures depend on plants, animals, and natural ecosystems for their religious and cultural beliefs. Those that still practice the old ways of living, those cultures that worship animals and creatures, those cultures that use plants as medicinal treatments; they are at stake.
As people’s cultures and beliefs are different, so are their thoughts and values on nature and everyday things. National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis said, “It means that a young kid from the Andes who’s raised to believe that that mountain is an Apu spirit that will direct his or her destiny will be a profoundly different human being and have a different relationship to that resource or that place than a young kid from Montana raised to believe that a mountain is a pile of rocks ready to be mined.” If different societies are raised to love and worship what others hate and destroy, then where does that leave the world? Who is at fault here? I believe that this issue is one that will honestly never be resolved. People have been raised with the values that they still hold today, and they more than likely will not compensate their beliefs. They should not have to, but if two groups of people are after the same thing with different views on that object, what can be done? It’s a controversial thought.
I believe that politics and legislation will not necessary change anything. A law that prevents one from doing what they believe in is taking away from another’s belief as well. An argument could be made that lawmakers know what’s best and rules need to be made in order to achieve peace and acquire prosperity, but at the cost of what? No one is at fault, but laws in an attempt to “fix” this problem would just point fingers in ways that they do not belong.
Many cultures depend on plants, animals, and natural ecosystems for their religious and cultural beliefs. Those that still practice the old ways of living, those cultures that worship animals and creatures, those cultures that use plants as medicinal treatments; they are at stake.
As people’s cultures and beliefs are different, so are their thoughts and values on nature and everyday things. National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis said, “It means that a young kid from the Andes who’s raised to believe that that mountain is an Apu spirit that will direct his or her destiny will be a profoundly different human being and have a different relationship to that resource or that place than a young kid from Montana raised to believe that a mountain is a pile of rocks ready to be mined.” If different societies are raised to love and worship what others hate and destroy, then where does that leave the world? Who is at fault here? I believe that this issue is one that will honestly never be resolved. People have been raised with the values that they still hold today, and they more than likely will not compensate their beliefs. They should not have to, but if two groups of people are after the same thing with different views on that object, what can be done? It’s a controversial thought.
I believe that politics and legislation will not necessary change anything. A law that prevents one from doing what they believe in is taking away from another’s belief as well. An argument could be made that lawmakers know what’s best and rules need to be made in order to achieve peace and acquire prosperity, but at the cost of what? No one is at fault, but laws in an attempt to “fix” this problem would just point fingers in ways that they do not belong.
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