Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Are you a traveler or an invader of Arizona's desert

Hot desert, amazing insects like scorpion, attractive saguaro cactus, camels eating grass, and beautiful oases in dry desert. When you imagine these words, don’t you want to go to Arizona? If you do and you can, you will be one of many visitors in the Great Arizona desert. However, keep in mind that you can also be an invader at the same time. There is a controversial issue related to this. Many travelers want to go to the Arizona desert, have traveled to see curious things there, and have made the Arizona desert polluted. As a result, many visitors have destroyed the ecosystem of the Arizona desert and it has lost the power to clean itself, because of human’s interference. So, the environment in the Arizona desert gradually has been destroyed, and the environment should be controlled by humans, for three reasons.

First, pollution in Arizona comes from humans, not nature, and humans are the main reason for pollution. Every problem has a main reason, and knowing the main reason is the most important to solve the problems. In Arizona now, increasing pollution is a controversial issue and an environmental problem. Actually, as you know, the nature has the natural power to clean itself if humans don’t interfere with its environment. But if humans interfere with their ecosystems, another story shows up. Nature loses the power to clean itself and everything goes out of balance. Humans make it this way, not nature, so we should find the answer to solve the problem of pollution from humans, not nature. Only humans can be a solution, whereas nature can do nothing about this problem.

Second, nature in Arizona already can’t clean itself by its natural process. Actually, nature can also keep itself beautiful and healthful. It has a purifying system in every ecosystem like our body. Unless there is a big impact and damage, everything will be in order and it can clean itself again and again. However, many visitors, as I have said, have been to the Arizona desert, have destroyed its ecosystem, and have made everything in Arizona out of balance. Nature can’t clean itself anymore, so it should wait for human’s help. Through humans’ consistent help, it can be revived. After that, nature will dramatically restart its purifying process and will show its amazing outlook again.

Third, humans can also find a sustainable way for the Arizona ecosystem, and it can finally be a win-win strategy for both sides: human and nature. The sustainable way is by humans, not nature. It means artificially, not naturally. But it can help both considerably. It could contain many aspects relating to system, law, money, and mind change. For example, the state of Arizona can make a law about banning many travelers from visiting the Arizona desert many times, making several rules in the Arizona desert to protect it from polluting by visitors, or establish some campaign for protection of Arizona’s desert from many visitors. These things show us why the environment in Arizona must be controlled by humans, not nature. And there actually is a great sustainable way to solve the problem.

Some people say we should let Arizona ecosystem be natural without humans’ effort, and then it will be better soon, because the natural solution is the only best thing. But, this insistence doesn’t make sense, because it ignores humans’ huge interference to nature and the fact that nature already lost its power to clean itself by itself. This means that it’s time that humans jump into the problem directly. The problem that humans make must be solved by humans, because nature can’t do that. We should change our attitude from human’s interference to human’s help. Arizona’s desert depends on our effort and every natural thing is always not good.

Arizona desert is attractive enough for visitors who are curious. So, many visitors have been to the Arizona desert, and sometimes have made many problems, like pollution and destruction. They were visitors and also invaders at the same time. The problems can be solved by themselves, not nature, because they just have a responsibility for that. Moreover, nature also lost its ability to clean itself because of humans' interference, so it needs humans' help. We can find the sustainable solution to help nature’s purifying ability through our system, law, money, and campaign. I hope many visitors who have been to the Arizona desert turn to a great helper for nature and for humans.