Dear Friends, it’s time to talk seriously. No really, that’s not fun anymore. Bad ecology?
Let’s consider that step by step.
The German scientist determined it as a science that studies cooperation between the organisms and their communities with the environment
In 1866 Ernst Haeckel, a great fan of Charles Darwin evolution theory, suggested a new term “ecology” for the biological science becoming the founder of the separate science branch the importance of which the mankind is only starting to realize.
The German scientist determined it as a science that studies cooperation between the organisms and their communities with the environment.
Here we need to give the small explanation. Let’s take a simple example – a mosquito drinks a man’s blood. Whom will ecology study in this situation? The mosquito? The man? Ecology will study the liaison between the blood sucker and its victim. The cooperation of the different animals connected by chance. The whole world is covered by the “invisible nets” of such liaisons. This is the true global net.
These are the connections the ecologists study. They study them when they exist for a long time, when they break and when the new ones appear. Please take it in to consideration that there is no single mention of the human, environment protection or pollution.
Everything started to change in the second part of the 20th century when the influence of the man on the nature became really significant. The term that was hardly suggested for it began to be used for the different situations related to the environment protection from the human.
The ecology has become the synonym of the environment state and even its crisis. The man throwing away the garbage and building the factories was always supposed to be in the root of that. The true meaning of this word was vague that time and as experience shows remains the same now. In 1990 while the 5th International ecological congress the attempt was established to take stock of the long year suffering of the science and the modern definition of ecology was made.
Ecology is the biological science that studies the structure and the functioning of the systems of above organisms’ level (population, communities, ecosystems) in space and time, in natural and modified by man conditions.
It didn’t help to fix the problem. Moreover the term has become controversial.
Nowadays in our country we face the situation when most people don’t know at least the approximate definition of ecology at first hand and the mass media usage of this term in all the cases connected with the environment in the second.
And now what is the most important of all – yes, we do believe that the scientific terminology is highly important for understanding of the surrounding world and the relevant attitude to it
For the competent person it’s horrible to hear while the incompetent person remembers the wrong definition of the scientific term. And now what is the most important of all – yes, we do believe that the scientific terminology is highly important for understanding of the surrounding world and the relevant attitude to it. Such vocabulary should be treated with respect and in a certain sense with conservatism.
What should we do? It’s simple. We should breed mass media by all possible ways, inculcate the ecological culture into the people from the early ages including the number of basic terms and as usually we should start with ourselves and stop using the term ecology in the wrong way.
We make the difference between the ecology and the environment here.
And you?