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The article highlights that all living and non-living that have no linkage in the construction of human aspects forms a principal part of the natural environment. In the natural environment, many activities occur although the major events in the environment revolve around the relationships that different players form in the environment (Moran-Taylor & Taylor (2010). The paper reviews Moran-Taylor and Taylor work, with the intention of developing knowledge of the relationships in the environment.
The article argues that in the natural environment, there exist various types of relationships depending on the parties interacting in the system. Parasitic relationships rule most of the elements in the natural environment as some rely on others without benefiting them. Symbiotic relationships also rule major parts of the environment, and often there are mutuality relationships that assume the least effect on the environment. The most interesting relationships in the natural environment represent the relationships between the living and the non-living creatures as the living creatures give nothing to the latter, but benefit utterly from them (Moran-Taylor & Taylor, 2010).
I personally feel that the natural environment represents the real relationships that the environment desires to have. Firstly, I feel that the article exhaustively tackled the relationships in the environment. However, the author failed to articulate some important facts about the relationships subsistent in the natural environment. For example, the relationships among the non-living things lack the adequate articulation to elaborate on their roles among each other and their survival in the environment. According to Van & Weikard (2008), the environment present various elements, which need to survive at all times. In some cases, for some of the elements to survive, they eliminate the others hence the” survival for the fittest” concept. The relationships in the natural environment mainly lead to the survival of some of the elements, all the elements, or the death of some elements in the environment
References
Moran-Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. J. (2010). Land and leña: Linking transnational migration, natural resources, and the environment in guatemala. Population and Environment, 32(2-3), 198-215. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11111-010-0125-x
Van I. & Weikard, H. (2008). Poverty, environment and natural resource use: Introduction to the special issue. Environment and Development Economics, 13(5), 537-538. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X08004713
