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
Yongsan in Transition: Balancing Urbanization and Conservation
July 11, 2024 By: Jinsu Kim
Conservation: https://www.jeonmae.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=958133 ( “Yongsan US military base returns to the citizens.”) The recent opening of the Yongsan Children’s Garden, as reported in May 2023, connects to themes of conservation and public access to green spaces. While this development aims to provide much-needed recreational areas for children in the heart of Seoul, it also raises questions about environmental stewardship. Environmental groups have criticized the rushed opening, citing concerns about potential soil contamination from the former military base that has not been fully assessed or remediated. This situation echoes historical tensions between development and conservation, reminding us of Pinchot’s principles of conservation…
Connecting Past and Present
July 7, 2024 By: Heather Prohaska
Parks https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/bc-joffre-lakes-park-closure-dates My perspective on parks changed when I read Unit 3, Topic 2, The Parks Movement. Once again, learning about what happened in history is disturbing. First Nation peoples were pushed off the land so paying tourists could visit nature. The article above talks about how Joffre Park now works closely with the local Nations, N’quatqua and Lil’wat, allowing their people time in the mountains to rekindle knowledge for the youth and harvest things like herbs for medicine and mushrooms during peak times. The park is closed for portions of the summer to allow this to happen. I fully…
Exercise #3: Connecting Past and Present
May 3, 2024 By: Britnie Hearsey
Urbanization: I chose this article because I reside on Vancouver Island, where we face many of the same problems as Vancouver. The island is becoming populated at a rate our structures and resources cannot keep up with. My local municipality placed us on water restrictions at the beginning of May. This article discusses the increasing frequency and intensity of heatwaves in Vancouver, British Columbia, due to climate change. It highlights the challenges urban areas face in managing extreme heat events and the need for proactive urban planning and adaptation strategies to mitigate their impact on public health and infrastructure. This…
Connecting Past and Present
April 7, 2024 By: Danielle Fernstrom
Media Article 1. Urbanisation’s role in the climate crisis is being overlooked. https://www.ft.com/content/e9ec7f6d-27a4-4533-a4f2-7b91968e1688 Urban land areas could more than triple between 2015 and 2050, and the current way of building new cities will require vast amounts of raw materials such as sand, metals and wood1. If humanity continues to build cities in the same way we have over the past century — low density, energy and material intensive — more raw materials will be required than the planet can sustainably provide1. The projected developmental needs of urbanised populations are of vital importance to conservation measures. Conservation measures are futile…
Connecting Past and Present
March 24, 2024 By: Sam McQuillan-Gordon
I selected two distinct articles from 2023, both focusing on conservation in British Columbia. While both articles address conservation efforts in B.C, they offer contrasting perspectives.The first piece from the Vancouver Sun, sheds light on a concerning fact: B.C. ranks second in Canada for the number of ecosystems facing threats. It highlights the urgent need for conservation action in the face of ecosystem collapse, particularly due to threats like logging, urban development, and climate change.The absence of a national classification system for ecosystems in Canada also raised questions about how we coordinate conservation efforts effectively. It’s a reminder of the…