There is a saying attributed to Ibn Khaldun, "Geography is destiny". We do not know whether he said this word or not, but it is possible that he made determinations that would fill the inside of this word. He emphasized the importance of climate in determining the management styles from the personality structure of the human being. He divides the climate into seven regions and mentions that different climates affect people's body and spiritual structure. He states that different climates cause different civilizational developments. Naturally, for a person born in these climates, the conditions of that place determine his life. Actually, when I say geography is destiny, I think this ground is meant.
When we look at it from this window, geography is destiny, but let's not forget that the fate of geographies is also in the hands of people. This situation is actually a result of the purpose of creation of man. People who act with the awareness of this purpose beautify the geography they live in and can make goodness prevail in that geography. Unfortunately, today's people, who have this opportunity, approach both the naturalness of the geography and the things they host on it, not with goodness and beauty, but with evil and ugliness. He can make every beauty he can see in his geography ugly for the sake of profit. He can approach people with whom he shares the same geography with evil for the sake of his own interests.
Each geography has its own unique climatic characteristics and different opportunities, but in general, no living thing can survive in any geography without soil, water and air. If we can protect them in the geography we live in, we will offer the opportunity to live for future generations. Because just as the fate of geography is in the hands of people, the fate of future generations is in the hands of today's people. If we go against the laws of nature for our own comfort, to protect our personal interests, for our pleasure and greed, there will be neither livable geography nor future generations. It should not be forgotten that every comfort comes at a cost. Future generations will see this, of course, but we are already starting to feel the cost today.
Living in natural conditions is difficult. Man works to facilitate this difficulty. For this, he makes techniques, builds spaces, establishes cities. This is where the problem comes to a halt. Does man choose to fight or compromise with nature in order to facilitate its difficult conditions? If he chooses to fight, he will lose when he wins, as Hubert Reeves said. In fact, nature shows us fragments of this. It offers people the opportunity to stop and think, to question what they are doing. But it seems that; People still attack nature as if they want to watch this movie.
One of the biggest problems of today is that different identities cannot live together, and another is that people cannot live together with nature. Because while there is a chance to live happily and peacefully by sharing with each other, today's people who exploit each other prefer not to compromise with nature, but to exploit it. The basic logic of exploitation is to consume more. It is taking away the consumption right of another so that he can consume more. Here, people prefer to exploit nature in order to consume more, and it takes away the possibility of renewing itself. In order not to turn the fate of our geography into grief, perhaps the first thing we need to do is to establish the production-consumption balance on need and sharing, not on pleasure and greed.