Exercise #3: Connecting Past and Present
Instructions
For Exercise #3, you will make connections between what you have learned in the course about the past and what is happening today through contemporary media.
- Find two recent media items thematically connected in some way to two of the three topics covered in Unit 3: conservation, parks, and urbanization. For each of these, post a paragraph of three to five sentences, connecting the media story to what you learned, or were challenged to consider, from the resources in Unit 3. Provide the web link to the article in each post.
- These postings may be informal but should be grammatically correct. You should be respectful of other students’ opinions, but that does not mean you must agree with their ideas.
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- Then post two separate comments responding to any other student’s posts.
- Please note, you should write and edit your submission in a separate file then copy and paste it into the submission box. Once submitted to the HIST 3991 trubox site, you will not be able to edit your post.
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Submissions
Connecting Past and Present
May 4, 2022 By: Charlotte Knudsen
1.Strategy, E. and C. C. (2021, October 5). Conservation, culture at the heart of newly protected areas. Retrieved May 4, 2022, from https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021ENV0054-001907 A new provincial park will be established in order to protect an ecosystem that is located on Vancouver island. The park will also be renamed Sxótsaqel, Chilliwack Lake Park to honor its Indigenous history. The habitat is sensitive and the ecosystem vulnerable, which puts wildlife in danger. This increased protection will insure that these animals will remain alive for years to come. It is the human race’s duty to control the earth according to Pinchot, so…
Connecting Past and Present
April 19, 2022 By: Elizabeth Beattie
George Wuerthner. “Yellowstone National Park at 150: Still a Remarkable Achievement”, National Parks Traveller. Accessed April 7, 2022. https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/04/yellowstone-150-still-remarkable-achievement Yellowstone National Park was the first National Park in the world, born in 1872, but it was not originally a remarkable conservation achievement. Many Aboriginal and Euro-Americans in Yellowstone (and several other parks such as Banff National Park) were removed and in conflict with urban conservationists because governments were more interested in game, sport hunting, and tourism for the wealthy than ensuring proper conservation. The original thought to create a National Park was brilliant and evolutionary but was just executed poorly….
Connecting Past and Present
March 24, 2022 By: Christopher Anyadubalu
Article #1: Science Daily. “When more women make decisions, the environment wins.” Science News 21st March 2019, Retrieved 18th March 2022: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190321152838.htm The media item from the Science Daily is on the theme of conservationism. Based on what I learnt in this course and perceived from my past and present environment, it seems that there are many publications, seminars/workshops, and legislation aimed at conservation and protection of our environment but not much have been done about it. Thus, this media item attracts my attention because (living in a society dominated by men) more women need to be involved in the…
Exercise #3
February 27, 2022 By: TAORUI LIU
Article #1 – The ‘tragedy of the commons’ and why it is helping to scorch our planet URL – https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tragedy-climate-column-don-pittis-1.6135872 This article discusses how the tragedy of the commons explains the global warming phenomenon. It is relevant because it applies the ‘tragedy of the commons’ theory to an environmental problem that is quite controversial both locally (in Canada) and elsewhere abroad. Urbanization has come with development activities that further make it hard to reduce global warming. The use of gasoline in vehicles produces tons of greenhouse gases in Canada, and because it is almost impossible to do without it, global…
Connecting Past and Present
February 26, 2022 By: Zhuorui Ye
One of the recent media articles related to the concept of conservation is “‘Everyone Came at Once’: America’s National Parks Reckon with Record-Smashing Year” by Annette McGivney, published in The Guardian. This media article talks about the effects of relaxed COVID-19 restrictions in the U.S. People began arriving in large numbers at the parks, which has led to more trash, diminishing the visitor experience in some regions.[1] McGivney’s article is related to the idea of conservation discussed in Unit 3, particularly about the ever-important role of conserving natural resources and ensuring changes in how humans connect with the environment. From the…