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I agree with Daniel that China’s model is good for itself as a whole nation but not for its people. However, I disagree that China’s model making them a role model for other nations is a good thing. T ...

To answer Naya’s question, I think that wilderness is the nature that is separate from humans. This isn’t so much a dictionary definition as a sort of guideline I would use to determine what is, and w ...

This reading was the first time I think I had ever read about factory labor, and the reading hadn’t made it sound awful. As everyone has been saying, it seemed like there was a lot of mix between good ...

To answer Gyoungheui’s question, I think that the goal of national parks is (or at least SHOULD be; but generally is) strictly to preserve nature. Abbey says it himself on page 274, “…it is the primar ...

In response to Yi-Wen’s question, I do think that national parks are a very good (the best that I can think off) way to protect nature. I think that human alteration is what makes things less natural, ...

In response to Eli, yes I think think that a swimming pool is still natural. Like Didion said (by the way Eli, are you and “Joan” on a first name basis?), “In fact a swimming pool requires, once it ha ...

To answer Aundré’s question, I’m not sure that de-privitazation set back the poor so to say, but I think that it did have a negative effect on the city overall. Especially in relation to water obtain ...

I think that in a way, Mao based the uprising of the “new” China off of his own rising up into the world. He was born to a peasant family in the countryside, but due to his hard work and persistence, ...

Like Naya, I also thought the couple pages about horses very interesting as well as very environmental history-esque. Not that anything we’ve read yet hasn’t been, but this reading in particular showe ...

I agree that the Closed Door Policy definitely can be rooted as a cause for the Opium Wars. Because of China’s reluctance to trade with westerners, and their lack of interest in western products, west ...

I thought it was fascinating (and had previously had no knowledge) about how independent traders and even villages? were actually legally purchasing land from the Native Americans, though this would l ...

The first section of reading I think is much more controversial and fit for the discussion than is second reading, which while it is very interesting, is more factual type stuff that is not really ope ...

I agree with Madi, that the definitive class structure did not help create a cohesive community, but I do think that it in a way does create a cohesive nation. Even if the some of the social placement ...

You need only read the first couple lines of “Eden” before being able to identify what lead to the draining of North America’s resources. A few pages into the reading, it is said plain and clear, “Non ...

After today’s class I find Merchant’s essay much more intriguing (still don’t like Cronan’s). To me, her idea of Environmental History relating more to race and gender rather than trees and dirt is in ...