homework 5

I was interested by the middle of the story that the narrator told. He said that man for a long time acted like any other creature without any control over the environment. This is because they could not settle down in one place and begin to take control. Instead, humans were hunting and gathering and essentially following their food wherever it went. But, when humans began to figure out agriculture was the turning point. After this, followed the rise of technology and humans began to take control over the environment. It was also very interesting to listen to Ishmael as he was explaining the duty of humans on earth as they see it. That duty is to hold dominion or to rule over all the creatures and create order in the world. As people believe, without the humans there would just be chaos throughout the world. But, I was a bit confused as to what Ishmael means when he says that humans have paid the price that casts humans as the enemy of the world.