🎗Week 4🎗

In the battle between Muri and Pinchot over Hetch-Hetchy, they both represented different philosophies on protecting beautiful American aeras. Muri was a preservationist and Pinchot was a conservationist. Muri thinks wilderness should be a place without human intervention and the natural growth is the best. His preservation was to leave the land with natural status. Like Hetch-Hetchy. Pinchot thinks wilderness can be the resources for the country if people can manage it well. He spread his concept to people can taught them to exploit wilderness. And comparing with leaving a full of resources wild land, use resources to help people get what they want was the priority at that moment. Like O’Shaughnessy Dam.

In Nash’s lecture, counterculture is like the new formatted value which disagrees the old values of the meaning of life and succeeds. The new and young generation in the middle of 60s was not so obsessed in creating achievement and ensuring safety comparing to the old generation, and they also didn’t celebrate technology, power, profit, and growth- the gods in which wilderness had traditionally been sacrificed in US history. Many Americans started to think wilderness and Indians as victims in 60s, and the old concepts threatened the counterculture like peace, freedom, and community. Counterculture concepts matched the wilderness preservation movements, and they were mutually reinforcing.

I believe advent and popularity of electronic technology is beneficial for nature. In the beginning of the study and development of technology, it was true that natural environment had been damaged and polluted massively. The air pollution, water pollution, and so on by the waste eject of industry and mechanism all over the world. And the consequence of nuclear bomb made people took the usage of advanced technology cautiously. And people begin to enjoy the original wilderness like national parks after they balanced the benefits of exploit such beautiful areas. Some sacrifice of the natural environment were necessary for the improvement technology and it has reached a right level to maintain and enhancing the natural environment to a new level. If we ignore the irreversible usage of natural resources, natural environment is still can be refreshed back to original or even better situation by the care of technology. Today, small cameras and drones are good to monitor the change of ecosystem to make human have enough data to make analysis to make the best change and prevent the predictable damage to the environment and wild animals. And some labs and management to the almost extinct animals can keep them alive or change their habitat from the slaughter of predator and natural disaster. For the river, lakes, and lands, technology uses best way to against erosion and loss of them and making the habitat to a better situation. Without human interruption, some habitat might keep in good situation forever, but some are not, so human can prevent and improve the habitat which has chance to ruined by natural disasters or the bad sequence of natural deduction. I would like to say advent and popularity of electronic technology is good for wilderness in the future.

My personal reflection is technology created wilderness and it also can make wilderness better than ever. In the progress of technology study, human has entered an era for enjoying the benefit of modernization which they have never experienced before. And people also making stronger plants by cultivating them in the lab even in the space ship outside of the earth. Therefore, today, those strong plants can make the environment has a better performance after human research. Without human interruption, original plants couldn’t have so many different species and getting evolve so fast. It was the truth that in the process of human community growth, wilderness or we can call it natural environment has been damaged a lot to a level that threatening most of the organic life on earth, but it was the required sacrifice to the whole higher intelligent life group in the solar system. Today, human can even clone themselves which have entered the filed of god. Nothing can stop human to make a better world. Listen! The land is trembling! Here is a video about space plants.