Above Nature By David Suzuki Summary

Have you ever wondered what our city looked like before we, humans, came and built this lovely urban setting that we know as Toronto? Or, how we completely destroyed the homes of other forms of life to build a perfectly groomed and landscaped urban setting for human life? One that does not have a place for the other forms of life I agree with David Suzuki that we humans seem to think that we are special and above nature which has led to the creation of many environmental problems today.

One of the many reasons as to why humans seems to think they are above nature is partly the fault of how we were raised growing up like Suzuki stated in his essay. Most kids, especially in North America, grew up in urban settings where everything is designed for the needs and wants of humans and like Suzuki said “it’s very easy to lose any sense of connection with nature” (paragraph 1). It is very true, we live in a very fast paced life that we forget that we are just another specie in nature, which leads us to kill anything that ruins our perfectly groomed house with the exception of certain city animals, which are sometimes accidentally killed by cars. Hopefully. Because of this, we think of them as a pest or an annoyance which is
We put human wants before thinking how it will badly affect the environment. We cut down forests to build houses to live in, buildings to work in, malls to shop in and many other things. By cutting down those forests, we are cutting down the homes of other species because we need the space to build something we, humans, want. We build factories that let out smog in the air to create product we, humans, want or to earn money off of. We seem to think that human life is entirely separate from nature because we don’t see the effects of what we do that harms