Journal 12 - Ayn Rand Ecology

This quote means that environmentalist are trying to go back to cavemen times and take technology and everything back to the old days. `I do not agree with Ayn Rand, I think that she is not looking at the big picture. In order to help keep this planet healthy and able to keep human beings surviving, then we all have to help the earth and keep it safe. Ayn Rand is condemning saving whales and saving aquatic animals from being killing and from potential becoming extinct.  It is interesting that Ayn Rand feels that environmentalism is basically a sin and wrong but she is not seeing that in order to survive we have to do these things. We have to save the trees because they give us oxygen which allows us to continue to breathe each day. The true goal of environmentalism is to save the earth and the animals on the earth, it is not to demolish the technological advances the world has made but rather encourage them to find a way to be beneficial to helping the earth stay clean and healthy.  I feel like the meaning of the word ecology is different now than what it used to be which is why Ayn Rand could be saying what she is about technology. Also technology has advanced a lot since Ayn Rand said this and maybe she likes some of the new technology so it could be possible that she might change her mind about ecology now.  I strongly agree that we should not go back to caveman times.