Building Awareness of Eco-Centrism to Protect the Environment
Frederikus Fios
Character Building Development Center, Computer Science Department, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
Abstract
The environmental crisis that hit the global world has threatened the future of the human being and all living in the world. The root of the environmental crisis today that is due because of the "human factors". Human mindset embodied in various forms of exploitation of the natural act of damaging our environment tragically. Understand anthropocentric is so permeated human thought patterns stimulate human passion to continue to exploit nature without human arbitrarily. Natural objectified and regarded as a place to suck it for the benefit of human. And nature environment needs to be protected by human as moral person. One way to protect nature is not a great design technology, but change the mind set of people from anthropocentric paradigm to eco-centrism awareness in order to protect the environment entity. Using reflection methods especially deconstruction of Derrida, continuously critical of anthropocentric is a must as one way to protect the environment in theoretical thinking frame. Through this frame of thinking, it can constructed the concept of ecological awareness for protecting environment and the good condition to the earth and all reality of life.
Keywords: Building, Anthropocentric, Eco-Centrism, Awareness, Protect, Environment
Topic: Environmental Engineering