The Environment and Humans

 Why is it that humans and the environment have such a strong connection?

In this environmental unit, I came to learn a lot about the way that the environment often affects humanity and how the environment is affected by humanity's decisions and choices. As the reading said, the natural world relies on balance to stay alive and healthy. Everything in the world must have balance. In history, the environment often seeks balance and humanity seeks advancement. 

This advancement that is seeked by us is not necessarily always done so in a way that helps the environment maintain it's balance. It tends to usually affect the environment’s balance, which then forces the environment to seek balance and change a few things that most of the time, seem to affect us. This is the connection that we have. From the information that I gathered, as humans, we have more of a connection to our environments than the environments themselves have to us because our physiological needs, basic needs, such as food and water sources and shelter are highly dependent on the environment. But if we make a bad choice, it is then forced to change and search for balance again. So for things to stop changing we would either have to stop advancing or make good decisions such as choosing the sustainable option that will make the balance shift to help us continue advancing.

             This is the idea of human flourishing through the successful process of satisfying the basic needs. Each time that a level of the pyramid is successfully satisfied, we develop and advance more. The process of the environment seeking balance is something that speeds this process up or slows it down depending our choices before the balance is altered again. Taking into consideration the altering of balance and our advancements after each one, would it be possible that in the future, our pyramid grows to add things that we don’t have now? I think that this idea is mind blowing. I wonder if it’s actually possible. In the past, did they have knowledge of the things that are further up on the pyramid and just didn’t do it or were they completely unknown? It would make sense for them to not know of the levels we have now but I cant imagine there being more to it than there is now because we are very thoughtful people and have gotten down all the basics and emotional necessities, we are just focusing now on intellectual things. But if this process does continue, I think that it could be possible for new levels to develop because we are never really done learning, at least not yet.