The chinese character Huanjing [環境, environment] appeared first in the chronicle of the Yuan Era. This chronicle was written by OU-YANG Xiu in 1060. Huan jing means round or a zone being surrounded. It later took on the meaning of environment and surroundings or circumstance between 1936 and 1943 in Japan. The word Hyan jing [environment] was possibly reintroduced to China before 1944 with additional meaning from the Japanese word Kankyoh Some Japanese scholars today believe that the word environment is a field or place (a habitat), and media where a man lives. Internationally, scholars generally believe the environment is the object against the subject. I think that the subject is the individual against the whole. The environment is a set that consists of all the individual elements, namely the environment is the totality of the individual elements. So it is better that the subject is called the environmental subject, and the individual elements are calling the environmental elements The earth or the word consists of all kinds of sets, for example : a country, a family and a school are seen to be a set. Based on the sets, the environment appeares through the following four steps. 1) A set is derived from a basa ; 2) An individual element is decided to be a subject ; 3) Some elements relating to the subject are recognized to be environmental elements ; 4) A totality of the individual elements consists, and environment appears. The Subject and object are on equality at the first step. and place of Subject is able to be reversed with the place of object, but nature has been the object for man since the 18th century, nature is the environment of man, so some environmental problems have appeared here and there. It is necessary that the relationship between nature and man returns to the first step to solve these environmental problems.
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