Which demands more intelligence or presents the greater challenge:?

Question

changing our environment to accommodate our needs or changing ourselves to adapt to our environment? And why?

Answer 1

Changing the environment to accommodate our needs is much more difficult.

To change yourself is relatively easy, provided you have the will power. We each make choices every day. This would purely be a collective decision to make changes to protect the environment.

However, to change the environment to accommodate our needs means you first need to fully understand the delicate nature of every organism and mechanism in nature. Then you need to alter that mechanism to sustain our growing and changing needs. Good luck!

Answer 2

Changing the environment might require more intelligence, but adapting to our environment is a wiser choice. For sometimes, we find ourselves in predicaments that we cant change and we have no option but to adapt or collapse. Flexibility means wisdom, because life is not static but forever changing and we have learnt that changing the environment might be the easier option, but we sometimes fail to see the consequences of choosing an easy life. eg. we build cars to make travel easier, but it causes pollution. we eat take-away to save time cooking, but it causes health problems etc. The native Americans adapted to their environment and lived in perfect balance with nature. I think we should follow their examples.

Answer 3

This is "yes-yes" question. I think it takes more intelligence to change our environment to accomodate ourselves, but is a greater challenge to adapt ourselves to our environment.

Changing the environment requires several things: 1) We must understand our own limitations 2) we must understand what in the environment presents the greatest limitations 3) we must understand how to change the environment. These are not easy and require rational thought in sequential order to come to a solution.

Changing ourselves requires more of an intuitive understanding of ourselves and our limitations; it also requires us to reach compromises with regard to how much pain we are willing to accept and what limitations we are willing to accept. Not really an intelligence exercise, but much more difficult to come to grips with.

Answer 4

I think it's much easier to change ourselves to adapt to our environment. The other option is just so difficult to achieve and it's not a nice reality but compromise is just so much easier. Of course most people reason to themselves that the environment cannot be changed by just one person so they don't bother trying.

Answer 5

Changing ourselves is much more difficult. With the environment, we have endless tools to do anything with it. With us, we need will power, and will power is really, really demanding. So we'd rather destroy a forest than adapt to living next to it.