The hot Hollywood blockbuster Avatar has led us into the beautiful Pandora planet with the latest 3D technology and production, allowing us to experience the fun of jungle exploration and the endless charm of nature in person, showing the destructive destruction of nature and greedy demand of human beings, and revealing the ecological balance concept maintained by the actual "Holy Mother", Wake up people's love for nature and cause people to reflect on their own behavior. This work conveys the environmental concept to the world in the form of a film. From a certain perspective, this is a successful environmental protection propaganda film.
Avatar is not just the story of developers and nail households, which is jokingly called by people. It actually shows the struggle between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. Pandora is actually a mirror of the earth, and the Na'vi people are the shadow of human beings. The Na'vi people ride horses instead of driving, and the Na'vi people tame birds instead of flying planes. Anthropocentrists have destructive high-tech, plundering with iron and steel machinery, for the so-called economic benefits, regardless of cost and consequences; Ecocentrists take trees as their home. The "Holy Mother" of faith is the ecological law, energy conservation, all creatures are brothers and sisters, and food is one of the methods of energy flow. This strong contrast can not help but trigger our thinking on environmental ethics.
Environmental ethics are complex and diverse, but generally can be divided into anthropocentrism and non anthropocentrism. Anthropocentrism can be divided into traditional anthropocentrism and modern anthropocentrism, such as weak anthropocentrism, anthropocentrism with intrinsic value of biology, and anthropocentrism in the sense of sustainable development; Non anthropocentrism can include animal libertarianism, animal rightism, life centrism, eco centrism, etc. Traditional anthropocentrism believes that human beings are the masters of all things in nature, and can evaluate and arrange the whole world as they wish; Ecocentrism believes that we should not only moralize human beings, but also moralize other biological species and even other inorganic substances in nature. They acknowledge that life and nature not only have external value, but also have internal value and enjoy moral rights. Avatar shows the collision of these two different world views, values and ethics in the form of film and drama. Let's re-examine the traditional thinking of human beings, and think about what kind of ideas have caused the destruction of ecological balance, the unlimited growth of population and demand, while human beings are still waving flags and shouting for their destructive ability and speed, as cheerful as a lark. Obviously, the answer is traditional anthropocentrism. So, in the face of increasingly serious environmental problems, should human beings immediately transform their thoughts into eco centrism? The author believes that it is unrealistic to let human beings, who have a history of thousands of years, return to the primitive society and become a complete eco centrist. To solve this problem, the key is to find out the inappropriate ethics in traditional anthropocentrism.
The ecological crisis mainly stems from the consciousness of conquering nature and the concept of development only that human beings show in the process of industrialization. Human beings are intelligent animals. They become stronger and stronger through continuous evolution, and constantly transform nature to obtain wealth for self-protection and development. Human beings are not only separated from animals, but also change the face of nature and even break the ecological balance. Over time, human beings who continue to achieve success have developed the concept of taking pride in conquering nature and taking pride in achieving development. The developers in the film only pay attention to the economic value of the mineral energy in front of them, and do everything possible to promote the performance of the wishing tree, showing the greedy side of human beings, which is a typical representative of the benefit oriented theory. It is such consciousness and concept that guide people step by step to today.
To eliminate ecological crisis and maintain ecological balance, we must realize the transformation of ethical values. It is necessary to change from conquering nature to respecting nature, and from growth oriented theory to scientific development concept, so as to realize the transformation from industrial civilization based on the traditional anthropocentrism of man ruling nature to ecological civilization with the basic purpose of harmonious coexistence, virtuous cycle, all-round development and sustainable prosperity between man and nature, man and man, man and society. (Author/He Rong)
