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
Exercise #3
February 11, 2022 By: True St.Denis
There has always been a waging battle between money and preserving the land throughout North American history. This battle still wages into the 21st century. For example, an ongoing struggle in the province of B.C. is logging and conservationism. From what we have learned in the course, conservationism was merely a tactic in the early 1900s to earn more revenue. Now, conservationism has grown into vital preservation of the earth’s few remaining resources. With that said, there is still a struggle between conservationism and economic support for communities. A news article by CBC has stated that the environment movement has…
Connecting the Past and Present
February 7, 2022 By: Yimeng Chen
Urbanization The ARC Center of Excellence in Exciton Science (2021) advances environmental conservation through clean and renewable energy sources- solar energy in urban areas.[1] Solar energy will promote net-zero carbon emissions in major cities and a self-sustaining ability, free from non-renewable energy dependence. The research indicates that more than 74% of the structures and homes in the city can meet 74% of their electricity needs from solar technology.[2] Urban buildings can integrate solar panels on roofs, windows, and walls to counter the massive pollution from energy sources that use non-renewable materials such as coal. Solar panels also promote energy conservation…
Exercise #3
February 3, 2022 By: Wanyue Li
The most conspicuous of the many themes present is getting conversations to help people conserve the environment. While comparisons can be drawn on efforts from various countries, Canada has done little to implement policies on the environment, especially on forests. A recent news article by KamloopsNow has voiced the concerns by the indigenous leaders over the “government’s old-growth deferral process.”[1] According to the article, the government is fast in saving the old forests while overlooking at-risk ecosystems in British Columbia. The article notes that close to “26 000 square kilometers of old-growth forests” face the risk of permanent biodiversity loss…
Connecting Past and Present
January 30, 2022 By: wei zhang
One major theme in connecting the past to the present is that conservations are the only way to save our environment from degradation and destruction. However, when comparing the conservation efforts of various countries, Canada seems to be lagging in implementing policies that protect natural resources like forests. For instance, a recent news article by Mongabay illustrates that British Columbia is at risk of losing its last old-growth[1]. According to the article, when old-growth advocates came forward last year, a sense of hope was provided to all those conservationists since it meant that endangered trees in the forest would be…
Assignment #1 Exercise # 3
January 20, 2022 By: Aaron Wagner
So What I have learned about Conservationism is that our environment is well and truly a very bad place right now and even though a lot of people preach about Conservaision, not enough is being done at least not enough to truly help the environment. For example, in LA alone one city in the USA uses about 112 gallons of water each day which is absolutely insane, And then over the course of 60 years we have managed to infect every part of almost every ocean and body of water in the world with some form of plastic or other…