ZOOLOGY 651 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Resource Consumption, Overconsumption, Omnivore
7 Dec 2016
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Ground: rethinking the human place in nature, ed. Boundaries between this world of nature and the world of artifice, the world of things we have made, are no longer very clear . We seek the purity of our absence, but everywhere we find our own fingerprints. We cannot come to terms with nature without coming to terms with our own work, our own bodies, our own bodily labor. Work itself offers both a fundamental way of knowing nature and perhaps our deepest connection with the natural world: describe the two positions that modern environmentalists take toward the connections between work and nature. Mainstream environmentalism creates popular imagery that often harshly condemns all work in. Most equate productive work in nature with destruction, ignoring the ways that work itself is a means of knowing nature while celebrating the virtues of play and recreation in nature. Work that has changed nature has simultaneously produced much of our knowledge of it.
