Anthropocentrism and its Impact on Society
            
             Richard Tobin, an avid environmentalist so elequantly put, "The largest problem facing human society is not economic collapse, depletion of energy supplies, or even a nuclear war. What we should be worried about is habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity." Why aren't we focusing on something that can have such a drastic impact on our society? The answer may be a tough one for most Americans, and humans in general to swallow. Our neglect, and destruction of mother earth, is and will continue to lead to our demise.
             Our mindset is that of "use," instead of protection and preservation, our industrial culture proves this, as all society is out for is its our own progress and development. However, the application of this mindset and its financial and technological systems to all areas of the planet results in destruction of habitat, extinction of species, and destruction of indigenous cultures. The biodiversity crisis is about loss of critical species, populations and processes that perform necessary biological functions, and it is also about loss of many other values which are good in themselves and depend on preservation of natural diversity and wild evolutionary processes. Industrial society, including logging/forestry, the technological revolution, and agriculture and their development construe the Earth as only raw material to be used to satisfy consumption and production to meet not only vital needs, but inflated desires whose satisfaction requires more and more consumption. It perpetuates a dangerous cycle of greed, which will only end in death of all species. This is proved in a statement from Chris Brown, professor at Purdue University, "There have been many episodes where human impact on bioystems has caused their collapse, dating back to Paleolithic times. But the present era of mass extinction is without precedent; even the mass extinction at the beginning of the present Cen...