There is no doubt that our environment is in the face of crisis. The threats that our ambiance suffers is the product of man's exploitation of nature. However, whether the answer to this problem is to completely change our worldview remains controversial. Lynn White, Jr. argues in his essay The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis that the source of fouling our environment lies in the Christian world view that the West implemented and spread onto other nations with the dominance and expansion in their pulpit of science and technology in the Middle Ages. The West believed that God ordained man to be the master and exploiter of nature, instead of being a part of nature. White argues that our ecological crisis will not end until a new religion is sought, or a new approach to Christianity is taken.
             The marriage between technology and science urged a different approach to nature, mainly an empirical one. While the west had been dominant in the field of science and technology in the Middle Ages as far back as A.D. 1000, introducing the use of water power which was later followed by wind power in the 12th century, it was not until the 18th century that science and technology were merged together by Western Europe and North America to form a new way of life based on the power of technology over nature. This, White believes, set the ground for the common practice of technology in our everyday lives (6). But everything comes with consequences, and new innovations came with new problems. White argues, "When the first cannons were fired, in the early 14th century, they affected ecology by sending workers scrambling to the forests and mountains with some resulting erosion and deforestation. Hydrogen bombs are of a different order: a war fought with them might alter the genetics of all life on this planet" (6). Clearly, it was with the introduction of technology that emphasis on our ecology grew, and the realization of the c...