Omari Matthew
Crisis Beginning
The world we have grown to love has been through more than we can imagine. It has gone through multiple ice ages, deadly collisions, giant meteors, and the beginning of mankind. To know that we have caused the earth so much pain is very nerve reckoning. After reading the articles, it seems that everything mankind has thought up is only has the “band aid”. Some of the solutions may be gone, but my hope still burns. My hope for an environmentally conscious earth has not faded away. The survival technique in the Peak oil novel has awoken my full knowledge of the situation. Life will not end instead it will just have to struggle for survival. But even some struggle is better then cataclysmic doom.
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Connection
Omari Matthew
Two sides of the same coin
The books Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, and The World World without us give a similar reason as to how the human race causes its own demise. A Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind talks about the beginning of slavery, and how it lead to the mentalities of today’s minds. While The World Without us gives a descriptive account of the world after human extinction. Although each book is, at first, different, each author is saying the same thing; the human want for money caused their own destruction.
In the book Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind the author talks about the beginning of slavery in great detail. He talks about how the white man enslaved black for the mass production of cash crops like tobacco. The white man brought in mass amount of people in order to gain more money. This mentality ties into today’s mindset. As humanity grows all over the world, they constantly disregard the damage their growth will cause to the environment. For example, when humans put their wastes in mountains (as a cheap way to get rid of them), the glacial water becomes contaminated and hurts the people who live at the bottom of the mountain.
In The World Withous us the author describes a world after human extinction. He talks about the different ways humans, before extinction, tried to save money by doing things that have huge environmental causes. Because of the want for money, humanity is faced with literal “urban jungles”. This is similar to Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, because both authors talk about how money leads to environmental damage. Forcing of slaves to do work, lead to a “Do anything for money” mentality, which lead to some of the environmental problems today. While in the present, because humans do anything for money, it lead to their own demise.
Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us. New York, NY: Picador, 2008.
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995.
Two sides of the same coin
The books Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, and The World World without us give a similar reason as to how the human race causes its own demise. A Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind talks about the beginning of slavery, and how it lead to the mentalities of today’s minds. While The World Without us gives a descriptive account of the world after human extinction. Although each book is, at first, different, each author is saying the same thing; the human want for money caused their own destruction.
In the book Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind the author talks about the beginning of slavery in great detail. He talks about how the white man enslaved black for the mass production of cash crops like tobacco. The white man brought in mass amount of people in order to gain more money. This mentality ties into today’s mindset. As humanity grows all over the world, they constantly disregard the damage their growth will cause to the environment. For example, when humans put their wastes in mountains (as a cheap way to get rid of them), the glacial water becomes contaminated and hurts the people who live at the bottom of the mountain.
In The World Withous us the author describes a world after human extinction. He talks about the different ways humans, before extinction, tried to save money by doing things that have huge environmental causes. Because of the want for money, humanity is faced with literal “urban jungles”. This is similar to Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, because both authors talk about how money leads to environmental damage. Forcing of slaves to do work, lead to a “Do anything for money” mentality, which lead to some of the environmental problems today. While in the present, because humans do anything for money, it lead to their own demise.
Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us. New York, NY: Picador, 2008.
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995.
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