Even though I will live a majority of my life in the years that many depict to be consumed with disaster, The Sacred Balance has not convinced me about the future of our planet. While The Sacred Balance reveals how we are influenced by our habitat from numerous positions, I feel as though Suzuki has failed to overcome the ‘doom fatigue’ in his book. The extensive use of diagrams, quotes, anecdotes and statistics are utilised to create a holistic portrayal of our dependence on the environment, thus reinforcing Suzuki’s attitude that society needs to treat the planet as though it were sacred. In his book The Sacred Balance, David Suzuki has attempted to overcome the ‘doom fatigue’ so his ideas of conservation and environmental management do not become the monotonous endeavours of intimidation that many environmentalists employ. The threat of doom for humankind is used so often, that it has become a clichй that many dismiss simply as a shallow warning. Constantly scaring society as a means to create awareness for the environment has created ‘doom fatigue’. Everyday in the media, society is confronted with the attitude that we are inevitably heading for a global environmental catastrophe that will destroy mankind.
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