Utilitarian

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

-Aldo Leopold

We exploit our earth because we see advantages in using its resources. It is logically sound in terms of evolutionary terms is genetically programmed to pursue biological and material advantages. Long ago, we take food, clothing, medicine and etc from the nature for anthropocentric functions. It was a balanced relationship until recent population explosion which throw us off the equilibrium.

Picture taken from telegraph

It seems that having utilitarian value is not sustainable in current situation. We need to find a way to stop exploiting our nature and its resources.