An Ecology of Houses

Summary from the text about Ecology, posted by  Kevin Burke, "Students Voice"

This text tell us the importance of nature for humans and non-humans alike, we all depend on nature as nature depends on us.

Now, we are facing very difficult environmental problems that will have important implications in human evolution, by altering the process of natural selection. The primary cause of this was the suburban sprawl, where so many constructions were taking place along the outskirts of cities, increasing profits and economic growth instead of taking care about the real meaning of the nature itself and the incredible thing is that both words share the same word part, “eco” which means house.

The suburban sprawl, broth an important impact on the local and global environment, like global warming, because of the increase of transportation outside the urban areas, the increase of energy consumption and also it causes enormous problems because of the extraction of oil, natural gas and coal mining. And finally all these extractions bring consequences in water contamination.

North Carolina experienced, within the years 2007 and 2008, a drought in, because of the increased pressure on water supplies due to residential development.

The main point to face this huge problem is to remind that we depend on the nature as well as the nature depends on us, that we construct the environment as we are constructed by it and if the environment we build is only for short term, then that´s how long it will last.