Here is Bill McKibbens article on nature:
http://www.billmckibben.com/articles.html
This website as a bunch of different relating to the issues that occur in our society and even has a book called the "The End of Nature." All of his novels vary in topics from global warming to genetic engineering in your family.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Fracking
In this article, the main concern is fracking. One of the biggest problems is the safety of our drinking water due to fracking. Fracking helps us, but the way that it is being used right now isn't safe for us in the long run. There has been complaints of foul water in places such as Pavillion. In 2008 there were traces of hydrocarbons and traces of contaminents in there that seem like it could be related to fracking. It was confirmed later that there was over 1,000 traces of carcinogenic chemicals in the water and a chemical compound that has been known to be used during fracking. The EPA at first refused to believe it had been caused by fracking. Today, after other tests have been made it has been confirmed that these problems in the water were caused by fracking. It is scary to think about this becuase it makes you wonder about the water you drink so carelessly. When in reactuality that water probably has dangerous compounds in it just like this water from Wyoming did. Fracking always will present a risk to water resources but it seems like that it is risk that the EPA is willing to risk. Now it is becoming a risk and a debate between the agency. This is likely to shape how the country relates natural resources. There needs to be much stronger rules put in place about fracking so it is used carefully and reduces threats to drinking water.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Richard Kahn
In my opinion when you go to a private school, chances are the education and circulum will be more challenging then a public schools. Although at a private school you have the chance to take honors and AP classes. I think it is up to the student how much effort they put into it. It is easy to graduate from a public school, no problem but with a private school it takes more effort. Once students get to college each one of them have a different education than another one. Thats why for some people it almost hurts them in the long run because it makes their GPA's look worse then they are. Some ways to fix this is to make public school as a whole more challenging for everyone. Everyone should be required to take at least honors class so no one is treated "different." Even though at my school honors and regular classes didn't seem much different. It would at least label the fact that students actually need to try to pass high school. It all goes back to how much effort someone puts into it. If it isn't a lot of effort then it will show in the colleges that they may or may not get accepted too.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
In no matter, never mind Gary Snyder basically talks about the rebirthing of new life. It talks about how a mother and a father base their life off their children. This is a different change in how Snyder writes because usually he is negative and talks about the earth and how it is decreasing in resources. He says that the child is "Matter" and and "LIFE."
In Coyote Valley Spring he shows his sensitive side for animals and how so many things can be happening where animals are and then he slowly shifts over to people floating away in boats. In this poem I think he is trying to make animals seem like a bigger deal to people because usually people overlook animals feelings. He is completely right though because people need to be more aware of their actions towards not only animals but their habitat as well.
Pine Tree Tops is also like that the poem above because it points out once again his love for animals. His last sentence says "what do we know." He is right. I think he is just pointing out that animals are important to our region and society and most the time that is taken for granted. Some important animals are becoming instinct and endangered which isn't good for them as well as for us because we depend on animals for food and other things.
In Coyote Valley Spring he shows his sensitive side for animals and how so many things can be happening where animals are and then he slowly shifts over to people floating away in boats. In this poem I think he is trying to make animals seem like a bigger deal to people because usually people overlook animals feelings. He is completely right though because people need to be more aware of their actions towards not only animals but their habitat as well.
Pine Tree Tops is also like that the poem above because it points out once again his love for animals. His last sentence says "what do we know." He is right. I think he is just pointing out that animals are important to our region and society and most the time that is taken for granted. Some important animals are becoming instinct and endangered which isn't good for them as well as for us because we depend on animals for food and other things.
Monday, September 10, 2012
More Gary Snyder poems
In The Dead by the Side of the Road, I think Snyder is trying to get the point across that humans take animals for granted. When someone sees a dead animal on the side of the road it is disappointing and sad but humans don't take into thought that animals can have emotions too. The way humans use animals such as dear for survival is needed but it is also sad in a sense because the animals never got a say in it. He seems to care alot about the environment and the animals that inhabit it.
In For Nothing, once again Snyder is trying to compare earth to something as little as a flower and how humans take it for granted almost like it is just something to be stepped on. He demonstrates that Earth can easily be forgotten about. If Earth is not taken care of the right way then it will dwindle down into what he says "snow-trickel, feldspar, dirt." I like how Snyder uses parts of the environment to get his point across. He uses Earth to act as something so you almost picture it in your mind.
In Tomorrow's Song, there is discussion about The United States and it is almost in a sarcastic tone because it says we need no fossil fuel. Either Snyder is being extremely positive and open-minded or he is being sarcastic. In my opinion, I think he is trying to be open minded because in the end of this poem he talks about using the wilderness to get through. This is shocking to me because in all his other poems he has been pretty critical about humans and our useage of the environment.
In For Nothing, once again Snyder is trying to compare earth to something as little as a flower and how humans take it for granted almost like it is just something to be stepped on. He demonstrates that Earth can easily be forgotten about. If Earth is not taken care of the right way then it will dwindle down into what he says "snow-trickel, feldspar, dirt." I like how Snyder uses parts of the environment to get his point across. He uses Earth to act as something so you almost picture it in your mind.
In Tomorrow's Song, there is discussion about The United States and it is almost in a sarcastic tone because it says we need no fossil fuel. Either Snyder is being extremely positive and open-minded or he is being sarcastic. In my opinion, I think he is trying to be open minded because in the end of this poem he talks about using the wilderness to get through. This is shocking to me because in all his other poems he has been pretty critical about humans and our useage of the environment.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Gary Snyder Themes
Gary Snyder has 2 sides to his writing. One side is dark, negative and insulting to humans and what problems we have caused in our society/environment today. Towards the end of Turtle Island is poems are positive and hold important messages.
In The Great Mother, and a bunch of other poems in this novel he is basically talking about the wrong that everybody has done to our environment. He says in the last verse, "she looks down at their hands to see what sort of savages they were.
In Control Burn he talks about how life was when Indians were around and how back then the world was in much better shape then it is now. His last line hints that he wishes that it would go back to how it was when indians were around.
In For the Children, it is a message to children that it is up to them if our society even exists in the future. He says that we are declining as a whole and that the most recent generation are the ones to fix that.
The environment is obviously an important theme through Snyder's writing. He makes it very clear that he wants something to be done to help our society or even somehow go back to how it was years ago, which in my opinion is hard to do with all the developments that have been made. He even has a fact sheet on page 31 about the U.S and facts about our country.
In The Great Mother, and a bunch of other poems in this novel he is basically talking about the wrong that everybody has done to our environment. He says in the last verse, "she looks down at their hands to see what sort of savages they were.
In Control Burn he talks about how life was when Indians were around and how back then the world was in much better shape then it is now. His last line hints that he wishes that it would go back to how it was when indians were around.
In For the Children, it is a message to children that it is up to them if our society even exists in the future. He says that we are declining as a whole and that the most recent generation are the ones to fix that.
The environment is obviously an important theme through Snyder's writing. He makes it very clear that he wants something to be done to help our society or even somehow go back to how it was years ago, which in my opinion is hard to do with all the developments that have been made. He even has a fact sheet on page 31 about the U.S and facts about our country.
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