Bis heute tut sich die Ökologie mit dem Menschen schwer – als Zerstörer der Mitwelt hat er sich den ersten Rang gesichert, als Erhalter und Entwickler wird er nur selten anerkannt. Dabei ist klar – und das beschreibt Andreas Suchantke eindringlich – dass sowohl Bemächtigung der Natur zu eigenen Zwecken wie auch die Integration des Menschen in sie zur Evolution der menschlichen Autonomie gehört. Einzig bei der Erforschung des Ozonlochs und des Treibhauseffekts sieht der Autor erste Schritte in der Untersuchung der Beziehung von Mensch und Biosphäre. Beide Probleme stehen in engem Zusammenhang mit Indus- trieprodukten wie Kühlschränken, geschäumten Kunststoffen und einem unersättlichen Verbrennen fossiler Treibstoffe.
N1 -Ecology has so far made heavy weather of human beings – we rank first as destroyers of the world that we share with other creatures, but our role as preservers and developers is rarely acknowledged. With this it is clear – and Andreas Suchantke explains it convincingly – that both taking control of nature for our own uses, and integrating the human being into, it belong to the evolution of human autonomy. The author sees the first steps towards investigating the relationship between the human being and the biosphere only in research into the ozone hole and the greenhouse effect. Both problems are closely related to industrial products such as refrigerators, foam plastics and our insatiable combustion of fossil fuels.
AB -Ecology has so far made heavy weather of human beings – we rank first as destroyers of the world that we share with other creatures, but our role as preservers and developers is rarely acknowledged. With this it is clear – and Andreas Suchantke explains it convincingly – that both taking control of nature for our own uses, and integrating the human being into, it belong to the evolution of human autonomy. The author sees the first steps towards investigating the relationship between the human being and the biosphere only in research into the ozone hole and the greenhouse effect. Both problems are closely related to industrial products such as refrigerators, foam plastics and our insatiable combustion of fossil fuels.
ST - Sustainable development through individualisation UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.18756/edn.100.27 Y2 - 2024-11-21 06:22:04 ER -