In the movie, avatar, the main character Jake said something while he was telling the Na'vi's what's going to happen next. He said that he came from a world different from that of the Na'vi's. he came from a world where there is no green and because they have killed their mother. in this case, Jake was really thinking outside human terms. He was outside what humans in this movie intend to do. He was aware of what happened because people were only thinking in human terms and this lead to their world having no green in it and having a dead mother earth. And although he was not thinking for the environment, he might as well as be since he was thinking in an alien's perspective. Why? Well, humans nowadays have full control of the world and everything on it that everything on the world other than humans would might as well be considered alien. How they are now, what they have become was not what they should be. Animals are used and reproduced to suit human needs and wants. Plants were killed and turned into things only beneficial to humans. Animals and plants do not belong to this kind of world, not in this world on humans at least, such, they might as well be aliens. This is what thinking in human terms is like. But what if we think not in human terms? We would be outside selfish greed, capitalistic thinking, we would be more aware of what is happening around us.
The world would always thrive to achieve balance. A state where everything would be at homeostasis. so people thinking in human terms would push this world to reach a balance that would lead to losing its capability to sustain life. So to prevent this, one must think not in human terms. One big problem in thinking in human terms is that, this would consequently lead to the new generations to be indifferent to the things that are happening around them. They did not see how much change really happened because they were not there, and so they become indifferent. People tend to small things that are happening and would only care if it would be a very obvious sign that this change is threatening their way of life, and only then do they act, and more often, by this time, the damage would be massive enough. We were thinking in human terms when we started the industrial revolution, that lead to new diseases, this changed the world. we were thinking in human terms when we decided it was okay to use coals as a source for energy, pollution resulted, the world changed because of this. The bulk, if not all, of our history, we have been thinking in human terms, when do we stop?
For me, we humans should feel that we are accountable to everything that is happening. We should feel about this at one point and look in this perspective at another point. Not only do we address the fact that we need trees, but we must also address the issue of what happened now that we have a lack of tress. This is only an example of what would happen if we think not in human terms. There have been new improvements to the thinking of not in human terms. There is a new term in psychology, the term EI, or environmental intelligence. This measures one person's ability to see and predict what would happen if they would do something to the environment. For an example, one would have a higher EI if they knew what happens to their trash, where would it be placed, would there be recycling, would it be burned, if it would be burned what would happen, etc. Our EI, is relatively higher now compared to the past few hundred years. We are now more aware of what is happening around us. More and more people now are thinking not in human terms and changes have been happening. A number of people now accept the issue of global warming; people now are using science as a tool to help the environment where as before it was used to destroy it. People now are prioritizing the environment more than they used to. This is what would happen if we don’t think in human terms and finally, a part of human history where we can say that our mother earth is at the centre not us.
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