The Creative Wilderness

This article starts with presenting the question, why do we call our environment a wilderness?  In this question the author is trying to relate to his audience that the environment we live in today is far from a wilderness.  He also states that the more civilized our world becomes the less we care for our world.  It is an interesting concept to think that those we call less privileged then ourselves have something to teach us verses the other way around.

Heyerdahl makes a point “too many people work under pressure to survive, and too many others get no work at all.”  This involves the people who work only typing all day as a job.  Ironically, those who do not have all the technology of today’s world are less tired doing manual labor then those who live in the city and go to the gym only so they can maintain what little muscle they have on their body.

It is becoming more and clearer that mankind is now rapidly approaching a total victory over nature, and there is fear that we might win.  Yet there is still not being enough done to stop this victory as we try harder than ever to implement our technology into first world countries.  But if we succeed in giving 2 billion of cars to everyone that doesn’t have a car we will indeed be one step closer to defeating nature.

I think we had some good discussions in class debating on whether or not society can stop the destructive path it is on by destroying our planet.  We had some interesting points of views in class of why our society is trying so hard to industrialize the world.  Overall it was a good debate and helped to open each other’s mind to a scary concept that our world is being destroyed by man kind.