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Conservation, Harmony Examples Course Readings - Coggle Diagram
Conservation
Conservation Questions to Consider in Modern-Day Society:
Do corporations have specific environmental ideologies that they follow?
How do we find harmony with nature when the federal government and corporations try to fracture it?
How can we refine our methods of production that allow for environmental restoration from the things we have abused in the natural world?
When you have negative ideologies, you are more likely to disrespect your neighbors and the greater natural world at large
Forgotten concepts from all 3 texts
Thoreau: Missing elaboration on Native American interactions with the environment prior to European arrival in North America and the types of policies they created that affected their interactions with one another and the natural world.
Thoreau:
Biblical examples of living in harmony with nature. Permanent versus the temporary regarding natural resources. Needs less emphasis on economic status
Pinchot:
Yale School of Forestry History
Coal history in America
Fire Ecology
Logging Industry history in America
"A Fable for Tomorrow" Rachel Carson
"As Albert Schweitzer has said, 'Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation" (Carson 2).
"The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials" (Carson 2)
Our poor production methods have ruined species that took hundreds, if not millions of years to develop and evolve, which includes our own human race in developing and third world nations. (We corrupt the land and we corrupt each other)
(See Carson 2).
Carson reminds us of what a peaceful, harmonious, and happy world would look like compared to a dark, deadly, and depressing one because of pollution, bad agricultural and production methods, and selfish desires.
We incorrectly place more value in the successes of ourselves and the prosperity of our economic systems more than the care we choose to give to our own planet.
"Scarcity and Plenty on Development" Boserup
Tech improvements in agricultural practices could raise productivity of land and labor, allowing for larger populations to be fed and ensured.
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Harmony Examples Course Readings
All nature and its inhabitants should be treated with the utmost dignity and respect
Harmony in Layzer and Rinfet
Aldo Leopold Quote: ... "the individual is a member of a community of independent parts. Therefore, a thing is right when it tends to preserve the stability of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise" (Layzer and Rinfet 3).
Romantics and Transcendentalists believed in preserving an untamed and "untrammeled [free] wilderness [that could ensure] that intact landscapes remained to replenish the weary soul" (Layzer and Rinfet 1).
Harmony in Thoreau:
Simplicity
Living life to the fullest
Permanent versus the temporary in terms regarding life and natural resources
Harmony in Pinchot:
Common sense to common problems for the greater good
Natural Resources must be shared by the masses and not limited to only a very few at the top
Recognition of the present generation and its needs while saving up for future generations, in ways that express care and compassion towards the natural world