Middle school student topic essay - Super model

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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: The ancient Greek tragedy master Aeschylus said, "One cannot force nature, but must obey it." The proletariat revolutionary leader Engels said, "We should not become too intoxicated with our victories over nature. For every such victory, nature has taken revenge on us. With each victory, the first step indeed achieved the expected results, but the second and third steps had completely different, unexpected impacts, often canceling the initial results." How should humans coexist with nature? Please write an article on the topic "Conquering Nature and Obedient to Nature." Requirements: The genre is unrestricted except for poetry, and the title is self-chosen. The minimum length is 1,000 words. Can humans overcome nature? "Humans can overcome nature" and "to subdue the destiny of heaven and use it" were proposed by Xunzi at the end of the Warring States period, calling on people to enhance their confidence in conquering nature. For many years, this phrase has been regarded as an ultimate materialist maxim. Under its inspiration, people launched large-scale battles to conquer nature. However, as humans have launched attacks on nature with immense power and wisdom and have increasingly achieved success, a tragedy of ecological imbalance and environmental pollution has begun to unfold. Under human intervention, 110 species of mammals and 139 species of birds that lived on Earth 2,000 years ago, contemporaneous with Xunzi, have now vanished entirely, with one-third of them extinct in the past 50 years. This shows that the rapid population growth has come at the cost of the extinction of a large number of biological species. Scientists estimate that there are currently 406 endangered mammal species, 593 endangered bird species, 209 endangered reptile species, 242 endangered fish species, and countless lower-order animals. The "2004 Global Species Survey" published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources reveals that more than 15,000 species worldwide are endangered, with extinction rates exceeding any time in the past. The journal Nature reports that in 50 years, over a million land-based species will disappear from the Earth. Of course, we cannot blame Xunzi. 2,000 years ago, Xunzi's mind was filled with moving tales like Nuwa mending the sky and Jingwei filling the sea, leading him boldly to declare, "Humans can overcome nature." But at that time, when he gazed around, he saw only primitive farming practices before feudal society had even begun. How could he imagine the extent of the damage nature would suffer when humans truly took "to subdue the destiny of heaven and use it" to an extreme? There were too many things he could not have foreseen: the (increasingly severe) pollution, soil erosion and desertification, the reduction of green vegetation, the greenhouse effect, and the destruction of the ozone layer. We should not blame Xunzi, so who is then to blame? Let the cross of repentance be placed on the chest of "humans!" The phenomena mentioned above are only part of the consequences caused by humans' unlimited exploitation of natural resources. Each member of modern industrial society consumes hundreds of times more energy than 300 years ago. The goal of national economic departments in developing production is to maximize the satisfaction of people's growing material and spiritual needs. Therefore, increased labor productivity means an accelerated rate of consumption of natural resources. If we continue to adhere to the principle of "humans can overcome nature," and the speed of consumption outpaces the regeneration of natural resources, then the Earth will