Human identity as the agent of change to make the earth better. As leaders, humans have a responsibility to manage the world for human welfare while respecting nature. Environmental damage from overexploitation and lack of conservation has led to disasters and unpredictable weather. As agents of change, humans influence nature but must be careful not to disturb the natural balance. The goal should be conservation that allows for development without degrading the environment's ability to support life. Humans must recognize how anthropocentrism has caused problems and change their mindset to be better stewards of nature.
Youth Category: How Humans Can Become Agents of Positive Change for the Environment
1. Category :Youth
Human Identity as the Agen of Change Earth to be Better
Emas Agus Prastyo Wibowo
Tunggul ,Tasikhargo ,Wonogiri,Jawa Tengah
085728617618
emasagus@ymail.com
Indonesia
18 years
Gender :Male
Semarang State University
687 Word Count
Human is the leader in this world, who created by Allah with the excellence and all
the perfect they have. We have thought and passion as the complement. Human has got
many facilities in this world so they can get everything what they want. We can find what we
need in this world just by manage it. World grows complex and make something instant can
makes bad effect to the nature, especially to the environmental. Environmental damage has
bring disaster to the human in this world, and it will continue if human don’t stop it.
There are a lot of serious problem shows environmental damage, for example
accumulation of toxic materials, green house effect, ozone layer damage, acid rain, and the
extinction of biodiversity. Unfortunately, just many people who cares and worries about it.
People seems not pay attention to this issue. Maybe, what Ebiet G. Ade said was true. Nature
begin to bore with the human, and that’s why many disasters happen everywhere because of
human’s bad behavior. Flood comes like a routinity, the bad air quality, and unpredictable
weather.
As a leader, human have responsibility to manage this world for human welfare,
because Allah has create it to them. As slave, human is small, but as a leader, human has a
big mission for this world. Because of that, Allah has given human with intelligence,
psychology, idea, heart, and passion which could drive a human to a high place. But it’s has
potential to bring human to a low place as same as an animal.
Human is demand to respect the occur process, so they have responsibility and don’t
destroy the environmental. And when they try to destroy the environmental they will think
“Every environmental damaging is human damage.” Animal, plant, and all Allah’s created is
2. belong to Him, and depend on Him. This faith brings all Moslem to realize if all Allah’s
created must be fair and good in treated.
Human as agent of change is human who influence their surroundings. Human as
agent of change causes natural process in this earth works different. At first, they just make
adaptation to the nature, but when they increase their knowledge, they not only get the nature
influence, but also give the influence to the nature. They makes change as what they want.
Besides that, human is conserve the nature balance. Honestly, the change of environmental
has no bad effect if the new conserve bring new higher quality. We know that development
also bring new change. It’s impossible if we make development without disturb the nature
balance. The truth of development is a disturb to nature but it seems like bring to the new
higher quality change. Because of that, we must be careful with nature conserve. Pordaminta
opinion (1976) Conserve means forever, immortal, never change like before; conserve means
never let it change. What must we conserve is not the environmental itself, but the ability of
environmental to support development and high quality of life.
Human must have moral responsibility. The first basic attitude is human must knows
what the real effect from environmental ethic theory, especially anthroprocentrism theory.
This theory causes human have authority to exploitation nature and make serious problem to
nature so it brings big disaster to the human whose live now or live in the future. The flaw of
antroposentrism will be important point to make a live guarantee occur process in this
world, include human. Human must have reality to know that there are something wrong if
they think nature bring disaster to themselves. Because of that, human must change their
mind and how to treat nature well. Pietleenhourwers said “Human must back a step, from
depotis king, king of world and cosmos, become to a slave who has responsibity, whose
depend on cosmos.” (from Egosentrism to ekosentrism). Because of that, stop to curse the
weather which very hot in the noon, because earth just gives effect from human who live
there. What has drawn by earth just reflection from human. Maybe, if human more friendly to
this earth, its face will more bright and pleasant when we look it.