Roots of Global Warming

The cause or the understanding of global warming requires a high level of thinking and a deeper look into history. Many have presented evidence that tie environmental pollution to global warming, but the cause of global warming stretches back in history, during the time of slavery. This thought is proven by Carl Anthony in an Interview, where he states that “When blacks were forced to work the land, the process human domination and the exploitation of nature occurred at exactly the same time”. What this quote is saying is that the earth began to deteriorate at the same time when slavery began. When blacks were forced to cut down trees in plantations, the ecosystem was being destroyed. Deforestation has been mention among the potential causes of global warming according to Al Gore in “An inconvenient truth”. This issue of global warming began because some white individuals felt superior to blacks, and as a result they forced them to work on plantations to make money. The outcomes or even the consequences of this were not acknowledged when they forced black people to work on plantation fields.
As proven by Alan Weisman in the article “The world without us”, and by Carl Anthony in “Ecopsychology and the Deconstruction of Whiteness”, global warming is a psychological issue. This is proven when both course texts express the idea that the earth and nature need to be understood so that we can understand the issue of global warming. Carl Anthony states that “the success of ecopsychology will depend upon its ability to help us understand the voice of the earth”. The word ecopsychology is an environmental study. Anthony is saying that the success of environmental study depends on the understanding of the way the earth works. If we fail to do so, catastrophes like global warming are the results.