Lisa Chellman (12/2): "The Fight For Conservation" by Gifford Pinchot

This important text describes the crucial need for humans to care more about conserving Earth’s resources. I had to read this for my environmental English class and we focused on why the environment relies on us to follow this and different ways this can be achieved. I like how this reading emphasized the fact that if current generations don’t start caring more about protecting the environment and conserving the resources we have access to, then future generations will suffer. This is important because future generations should not have to suffer consequences from things they did not cause. We’re lucky enough to have access to so many different resources on Earth, so it’s our job to protect them. It provides coal as an example and says one day it could run out if we don’t start conserving it, but it’s labeled as an inexhaustible resource. Why is it given the false label as inexhaustible when it will one day run out? People are constantly burning large amounts of coal, so it’s important to look at ways to start conserving this important resource. This relates to our conversations in class as conservation is an important topic we have discussed. This article also relates to chapter 9 in the Ecology of Eden book we had to read as it mentions destruction to rainforests because of humans. It was interesting to see the different connections present in the book and article. 

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11238/11238-h/11238-h.htm

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