Post #15 love it or lose it

A new issue that our younger and growing population is facing is biophobia. Biophobia can be labeled from discomfort in natural places, or hate towards things that are not manmade. There has been a growing trend of biophopia of the population that is growing up with a large amount of technology being introduced into their lives. People have not always had this biophobia, maybe not by choice but because in the older days people lived off the land and it was the life line for survival. The more knowledge we gain and the more technology that is created makes it easier and easier for humans to be biophobic. Although some may just have the idea of biophobia in their mind, many people act on biophobia due to what we have done to our planet. The pollutants that we have introduced into our environment are being shown it is the cause of pathologies within humans. With the increase of disease from nature it is understandable that less people want to spend all their time out side. It’s not a surprise that people do not want to go out and experience the wildlife now after we have hunted animals into extinction, or that we have destroyed animals environments, or that we have been selfish and created global warming killing of hundreds of ecosystems. To counteract this newly found biophobia or erase it from existance there must be a biophilia revolution of those who love our environment and nature enough to save it. To make this change from biophobia to a nation of biophilia we must eliminate the denial aspect that people have that our land is only good if it can do something for us. We must also be able to imagine a life of a biophilia centered world and believe that we are capable of sustaining it.