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I personally feel little to no despair regarding the environment, because it is beyond the scope of what I usually worry about. I have accepted my death as a certain eventuality, and can only wish it ...

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 ...

1. The first connection I made while reading Cronon’s essay was to Winter’s comment yesterday. Cronon argues that “environmental history has always had an undeniable relation to the political movement ...

Going off Lucas's questions, I think it is interesting that we understand "true nature" to be untouched by humankind or at the very least not created by people. But aren't we also animals? W ...

... are diseases part of environmental history?

I would argue that they absolutely are. All diseases (all the ones I know, at least) were formed and refined through their environment.

Lev, I thi ...

...how can environmental history have truly evolved to a non-moral and non-politcal field of study when a major third of its ideology is based on those exact principals?

In response to Winter: I t ...

Worster says that "environmental history... must go wherever the human mind has grappled with the meaning of nature" (9). He argued that "the main object [of the historian] must be to d ...