Traditional Euro-American Attitudes Toward the Natural World In today's modern world America is seen as an example of progress and perfection to many other nations. Most of the success can be attributed to our European founders, who developed this great land. However, the same people responsible for making this land so great exploited it for all it was worth. Thomas Berry believes, "The moment when the Europeans arrived on this continent, could be considered as …showed first 75 words of 841 total…

…showed last 75 words of 841 total…they treat the environment. We have to join together and help repair the damage our ancestors created by using the philosophies of the Native Americans as our inspiration. In order to fix our natural world we must make and enforce more environmental laws, begin replanting our forests, and work toward eliminating pollution. We can try to avoid making the right decisions by doing nothing, but doing nothing would be the most harmful decision of all.