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Progress Is When You Are Advancing Towards Something Analysis

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I believe progress is when you are advancing towards something. I believe progress means that we are able to use nature in a way that can benefit us. The Kinsely reading contributes to this idea, it says progress is moving from a condition in which nature dominates humans to which we as humans start to dominate nature and use nature to our uses. It goes on to explain that human and nature are competing against each other for control, but I believe that as human we now control nature to how we like. We use nature to our benefits, we take advantage because we can not be stopped. Nature provides us resources for many different things and with that we forget that when we take advantage of this we are also damaging the environment. I believe this is progress, because over time we have used nature for ourselves and have made such progress in technology and …show more content…

He believes that human are intelligent enough to use technology to find solutions to our problems. I believe that we have made progress in finally realizing that we do have an environmental problem, but are very slow in coming up with solutions to fix this environmental problem. Zizek also talks about how we should see that technology has taken over nature and that we should know that about the damages that technology has done to the earth. I believe this would also count as progress but its not something that is good. We are causing a lot of damage to the environment to an extent where there will be no nature. We have done much progress from nature such as profiting from energy, for example, oil. He also says that we should not forget that we are part of nature. He goes to say that we don't do anything about the catastrophes, such as global warming. We knoew something bad is happening but tend not to believe it when we should. By using the environment to our uses has been our

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