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In response to: Is there an expectation that Environmental History will retrospectively dictate what's right and wrong? Why or Why not?

I believe this 1: because people love to see history the way ...

I’m only half way through the first reading, but here are some quotes that I found interesting:

“Satan’s home had become God’s own temple” (281). I found this interesting because last nights readin ...

Knaide’s question, “Do you think emotional attachment plays a big role to environment? As in, does feeling connected to the land where one lives drastically change how the land will continue to grow a ...

Knaide’s question is, do you think that land holds more monetary value than sentimental value? Why? Should it be one way or the other?

Personaly I think that the land holds more sentimental value, ...

To the Q: “besides racial and social prejudices, did the parksman and politicians have any other evidence to support that surrounding natives' actions were actually destructive of the land?”

I get ...

In response to Will’s Q: I don’t really know if there are any privately owned lands where the land benefits. I highly drought it, because the prime goal of a private business is to benefit themselves. ...

When I was reading this I started to think about the United Nations Water debate we had last year. This was talking about mostly the same things: who can pay, who doesn’t have any water, who is in n ...

I think that the idea of colonists being behaviorally Indianized was an interesting thing for the colonists to think. I’ve never heard that before, but I think that that should be showing the European ...

So I REALLY liked this reading. By the way I’m half way through the long Eden one. In response to Olivia saying “I don't know what its trying to prove really”, I don’t think its really trying to prove ...

I’m not to sure of my definition but I would say:
Environmental history is looking at not just politics but everyday life of humans both in the woods and in highly populated cities and relooking/exa ...

When I was reading through the posts Olivia’s struck me as exactly what I was thinking about while reading. With the question of why does going up classes mean going further and further away from the ...

Like some people have said I also had some problems with humans being called natural history, but the bigger picture, for example Europe being horizontally long and America being vertically long, show ...