4. The long paragraph in the middle of page 22 (Merchant) made me wonder—to what extent is food and the culture surrounding it a part of environmental history?
When we were discussing Diamonds writing today in class, I kept thinking about his conclusion that “history has been moulded by our environment” (13). I felt like his examples justified the destructiv ...
Mia asked,
Do you believe that the civilization’s development was not dependent on the individual but instead on there geographical location and resources?
It simply makes sense that “it is people who create culture” (6). However, Worster states that “everything is shaped by its presence in the ecosystem” (6). This got me thinking about how centered our ...