Selection 6
The reading goes on to say that science and technology, began in the middle ages with Islamic scientists, but today has a western civilization name to it. Going as far back as 1000 A.D, science has began to have this western image to it [1].
In the midst of the middle ages, farmers started to use new technology for agriculture, in the form of a vertical knife plow, this however more effective, started to see the rise in over plowing, and for the first time families taking not just what they needed, but all that the land would provide.
The reading then turns to religion and its influence on the way humans interact with the environment. With such passages from the bible saying that man had the right to exploit the land, was the start of this attitude that we were at the top of the food chain, and had the right to manipulate the environment in the way we wanted. Although it says man should have the right to do as he pleases, it also goes on to say that this might have been misinterpreted, really meaning that we be in charge of the land, but not in a bad way, but to look out for the environment, to manage not exploit it.
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