When looking through the readings to pick one to use as a cross reference for analyzing a common day environmental issue, i could look past cronans TROUBLE WITH WILDERNESS. He makes such a valid point as the deeper meaning of the message that nature is a man made concept subject to change as our society evolves. Trying to find a good environmental issue that was directly relative to the writing i realized that their isn't a single example that fails to link the bridge. cronan makes the point that the common thought on neutrality is a state of being without the taint of a human impact. "It is an island in the polluted sea of urban-industrial modernity, the one place we can turn for escape from our own too-muchness. Seen in this way, wilderness presents itself as the best antidote to our human selves, a refuge we must somehow recover if we hope to save the planet.". What a satirical way to get at a very true statement. wilderness is a mental refuge that is always on the other side of the fence. in fact we as humans create this dualism subliminal that puts nature and the 'unnatural living style" of humans on the same field of play with not enough room for the two to coexist.
Co-author Dr Andy Radford of a late study, who leads a major project to investigate the impact of anthropogenic noise on marine animals, said: "Noise pollution is a rapidly increasing issue of global concern, especially underwater. Although lots of research has considered the potential impacts on marine mammals, we know relatively little about how.....
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110228183849.htm
This is sort of a weak example is the sense that this is not one of the biggest topics for environmental decay, but i think because such a non beaten path subject matter displays the issue just as well it makes the point work. what Radford is getting at here, is that we as people are corrupting the so called wilderness. is their not fish that live in ponds around some of the biggest cities in the world? is their not noise distractions created by other bigger animals in the so called wild? (Go back 250 years in American and European history, and you do not find nearly so many people wandering around remote corners of the planet looking for what today we would call “the wilderness experience.” As late as the eighteenth century, the most common usage of the word “wilderness” in the English language referred to landscapes that generally carried adjectives far different from the ones they attract today. To be a wilderness then was to be “deserted,” “savage,” “desolate,” “barren”—in short, a “waste,” the word’s nearest synonym. Its connotations were anything but positive, and the emotion one was most likely to feel in its presence was “bewilderment” or terror.) cronan qt 2 trouble with wilderness. There is no better way to evoke though that ponders what something truly means than reminding your self how a “simple” concept has changed so vastly over a couple hundred years.
The sum total of all the mumbo jumbo is that the dualism between this man made wilderness and human living needs to done away with… the struggle to save the separation between man and nature needs to be put to rest…. And the fight to make our foot print on the earth needs to be brought to the next level because we can never truly get away from nature. It is the world, the air we breath, the grass we walk on… it is us.
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