Climate
Change is one of the most important issues facing society in the 21st
century. People should not only rely on
the scientific research which lead to the advanced technology to reduce the
global warming. Some advanced technologies are too expensive and could not
effectively rectify to the damages that we have been done on our planet. People
also have to realize that the culture is one of the root problems. In an article of Impact
of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage wrote that “There is a wealth of knowledge
and understanding in the arts and humanities that is helping to broaden the
debate on climate change by exploring cultural values, creative endeavors,
ethics, aesthetic, critical reflection, and historical perspectives.”
In The
Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Thom Hartmann compared culture of tribes
and city-state. City-state cultures are hierarchically
organized, so there is a concentration of power. In a younger culture, this
results in a concentration of wealth and the existence of have-nots. As the result,
there are more populations, damaging to the atmosphere, endangering water
supply, lesser food and losing more species. However, the tribal peoples are
less greedy and more respecting to other tribes and the nature. So, they get
food from their renewable local sources, cooperation and gender equality.
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