Enviromental Science

Health problems are absolutely getting worse as the earth becomes more polluted. Sometimes it seems as though getting cancer is an inevitable part of life nowadays. The destruction and weakening of the ozone is a major ecological problem that is part of the reason for the growing number of cancer cases. The many forms of pollution are also wreaking havoc on our health as well as affecting animal’s health. There have been many cases of deformed frog with three eyes, six legs, etc, and breathing in smog daily must have adverse affects on the people who live in big cities.

The environmental crises can be summed up into eight basic parts. We are facing global warming due to the burning of fossil fuel, leveling rainforests and filling the atmosphere with chemicals. This will have disastrous affects for live

Pantheism is the worship and toleration of all goods. By Pan-atheism Dillard must mean that we have come to believe that there is no god. Instead of seeing religion in everything, we now see religion in nothing. Silence is all there is means that there is no great mystery, and there is nothing else out there.

Lopez thinks the land is like poetry because it is “inexplicably coherent” Another way of saying that is unexplainably understandable. I take this to mean that the land speaks to you. Also, “it is transcendent in its meaning” which is beyond comprehension. This reveals that there is more to the world than we see. And it gives us spiritual well being

Carson is referring to healing as it applies to your mind. “ The assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”(Carson, 24) It puts your mind and soul at ease that nature is so stable and dependable in that way. It is so consistent that sometimes it feels like nature is the one thing you can count on.

The tree behind Jesus is something that most people, including my self have never considered. Stephanie Kaza is saying how Jesus being crucified on the cross (of wood) is the legendary symbol of Jesus’ death but no one sees the death of the tree behind him. We see the cross as two inanimate boards, but she wants us to consider the life of the tree. Even more than that she wants us to learn from it the same way so many people have learned from the man who die on it.

When Thoreau says, “In wilderness is the preservation of the world,” he is referring to mankind’s dependence on the w

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Technological Assessment, Stephanie Kaza, Linda Hogan, Pan-atheism Dillard, John Muir, Aztecs Greeks, ,