In
the essay, “Island Civilization” Roddrick Frazier Nash analyzes how the
environment was evolved other the past millenniums. In some ways I agree with
Nash because he points out that the reason our wilderness in decreasing is
because of the treatment of humans and that is completely true. Over the past
100 years the wilderness isn’t the main concern in the world today. It has
grown to be the production of businesses and the growth of our world today as a
whole. In the past, the world was full of wildlife now when you look into
rivers, lakes and other bodies of water it is completely deserted.
Humans have taken the technology
available today and have left the wilderness out in the cold. We as people used
to live and thrive off the wildlife for food and clothing. Now in the third millennium
it is like humans have not learned to share the environment with everyone, most
importantly the animals that for the time being inhabit it and have since the beginning
of time. We have gotten greedy about how we think about other inhabits such as
animals that walk this earth. What will happen in the fourth millennium?
According to this article we are on
a downward spiral to extinction of many animals and inhabit that have lived and
roamed here since the beginning of time. Nash has several ways to help this
problem but the one that I didn’t agree with was lowering the population. Of
course the population is huge and growing by the second but how are you
supposed to just eliminate a good amount of people live on this earth? There
has got to be a better way to change the course of this problem. If the people
wanted to live in the fourth millennium and just have technical lifestyle then
that is what is bound to happen in the future.
In my opinion I agree with Nash,
although it is easier said than done. You can’t just change all that has
developed in a blink of an eye. It’s not that simple. On the other hand, there
needs to be a drastic change in the way we share our environment. Most people don't realize how much a problem this is in our world but without all these resources left on earth what will we do? Its just something to think about....
I agree with you that lowering the population in such a dramatic way is not really feasible. And you're right that you can't simply undo all of the progress that humans have developed. I'd be interested to know any ideas that you have that could potentially solve these issues.
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