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.