Author: Bülent GÜRAKIN / Greenginnovation Co. Manager

For a while, most people want to return to nature for some reason. Since I’m one of those who want to return, then we’re far from nature. Let’s turn; how..? Which way ..? How many were we when we walked away? How many people now want to return ..? Is the nature that we are distant away from? Is the capacity of the raped nature we want to return to be sufficient? Can we all fit together? What if we were 10 billion people in 2050? What about 2060 – 2070 – 2080? So… Will nature accept us? Or will he ..?

According to anthropologists, the human race in the world appeared about 2 million years ago. According to the scientists involved in Anthropology, the population of the world could reach only 5 000 000 in 6000 BC. In other words, the number of human population that can be reached in millions of years is limited to 5 000 000 people. From these figures, it is understood that in this period, it is not human’s destruction of nature, but nature’s destruction of human race. The harsh natural conditions explain the fact that information is not yet at the level to improve life in human life, and that a few decades of human life span, thus limiting the human population. Everything was changed in the history of civilization with the presence of writing in the Sumerian civilization in Mesopotamia between 3000 and 3200 BCE. Information began to be collected and regulated in a way that regulates human life. In this way, when we came to 3000 BC, the world population increased to 20 million. In the first centuries of the Gregorian calendar, the population had reached 300 million. 80 million of this population lived in the Roman Empire, and 50 million lived in China. Assuming that the period until 476 BC was the first age, and the period from that date to the acquisition of 1453 Istanbul was considered as the middle age, the world population reached only 400 million in the intervening thousand-year period. But after this period, the course of population increase has changed. The population has reached 1 billion in the 1830s with the accumulation of information in areas that directly affect human life, the understanding of the mechanism of epidemic diseases, the spread of information accumulated to other people through the developing trade and inter-geographical wars and the use of information in daily life. As the above mentioned knowledge became more widespread with the invention of the printing press, the great leaps in all sciences as a result of the Renaissance and Reform movements, and the extraordinary progress achieved in the prevention of epidemics in the field of health, the world population increased to 1,326,000,000 in 1900 and 1,491. 000,000 and 1,782,000,000 in 1914 before the first world war.

The development, widespread use of the vaccination technique in the health field, the extraordinary increases in the production of food, hygiene and vital goods as a result of the industrial revolution, the improvement of transportation opportunities and the delivery of these positive developments all over the world have led to the explosion of the world population after this date. Despite the first and second world wars, the world’s population reached 2 440 000 000 in 1950, 5 000 000 000 in 1987 only after 30 years, 6 000 000 000 in 2000 after 10 years, 7 000 in 2011 after 11 years. 000. The world population is estimated to be 8 000 000 000 people by 2020.

It is foreseen by scientific circles that this extraordinary increase upward will be balanced only in 2100 and the growth rate will end. After noting that the projection of 10 000 000 000 in 2050 and 12 000 000 000 in 2100 in order to analyze the solutions to the problems that may be faced in the future, we can proceed to examine the issue in terms of the common desire of all of us to return to nature.

Let’s open a different window and look at our desire to return to nature through that window. Let’s even create a film script:

Let’s say we have a wealthy family with three children. Your father has a good job, left and right property, houses and cars. So you have everything to live beautiful. The house they live in has a huge, lush green garden, all kinds of fruits, fruits and various crops grow in the garden. And all the people of the house are enjoying this wonderful pleasure. But parents have a flaw. They raise their children as irresponsible, incompetent and easy to consume. They cannot give them the qualities they should have in a normal person, such as responsibility, ownership and protection, order, discipline, ethical values ​​and fair sharing. Of course, kids are growing up. First, the elders get married, after a while the other, after another time. Since children are not raised well, the responsibilities of marriage are heavy for them. The parents’ protective attitudes persist even after their children are married.

They come into play with almost all financial means for children to face the slightest difficulties and problems. After a while, children cannot survive without the support of their families. They build business with family support, naturally sink, This cycle continues for a long time and the enormous wealth of the family melts away. Children go from one failure to another, consuming the family’s wealth and producing no surplus value. Years are chasing years, the palm of your hand ends naturally. That beautiful, huge, lush garden house goes hand in hand, the parents lose their health and the parents start living in a tiny house in a troubled life. Of course, in recent years, all three children have three and four children. This is the film; the heavy burden of life, unsuccessful efforts, always consuming, never producing, standing with the support of those who do not know the value of the three children’s lives become unsustainable and the houses they live in renting, living expenses, children are unable to meet the costs of education and are experiencing a social collapse. They all have the instinct to seek shelter under their parents’ protective wings, as their parents raise their protectionists unconsciously. They are very right in these instincts: When they destroyed and consumed everything in their whole life, they did not always embrace the resources of their parents. Didn’t they save their parents’ fortune from all the hardships? But now even the parents are in need. They cannot even lead a healthy life. Three children, three wives, 11 children from three families. A total of 17 consuming individuals with needs. How can this instinct point to refuge under the wings of their parents? Let’s say they all went back to the Home. What they eat, what they drink, what they wear and how they live.

Let’s finish our film script here. Because it is so sad to write and predict what follows.

The situation of those who want to return to nature is similar to the situation of the family in this scenario. Let’s look at the figures in the introduction again and ask ourselves the first questions again;

Let’s go back to our mother nature, how can she return? Our mother nature is not healthy, strong or strong anymore. We took everything from your hand as you squeezed it. He didn’t ask for anything. Now he has nothing on his hand. And as we left our mother nature, we were three or five people, and in our unhealthy cities and ghettos that we created, our numbers were thousands, millions, with our brutally consuming, poorly educated children. How can we fit into our mother’s house? How do we protect a few of the remaining houses of the house that we have plundered by removing a board at every opportunity ..?

I say: Let us not return to nature. Let’s sit in our good places. Let’s try to make the places we live livable, to respect one of us and all living things, to share what we have in a fair way and to do our homework against humanity completely. We also raise healthy children with ethical and vital equipment. You’ll see; then our lives, the environment we live in, everything we eat, everything we drink, but everything will be very beautiful and we will no longer have to return to nature. Because then we will naturally become an integral part of nature…

Bülent GÜRAKIN