The European Heat Wave: The Price of Anthropocentric Policies and Disregard for Nature

The ongoing heat wave in Europe is the result of Europe’s anthropocentric policies and actions that put Mother Nature in peril.

Anthropocentric Worldview

In the realm of social sciences, issues related to climate change have, of late, come to occupy an increasingly important space. The ongoing heat wave in Europe is the outcome of an anthropocentric worldview. Through this worldview, Europe has come to take Mother Nature for granted.

It believed that nature is a static entity that must be treated as a resource for ensuring humans’ growth and prosperity. It was this precise mindset that became one of the definitive factors in the commencement of the Industrial Revolution. Beginning in the 18th century in the UK, it gradually spread to other parts of the continent, particularly its western part. While the industrial revolution did lead to........

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