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
Past and Present – Urbanization and Parks
March 12, 2023 By: Allegra Solecki
Article 1 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/us/ohio-train-derailment-east-palestine.html This article is a recent one from the New York times, and the story itself made international news due to the health and environmental concerns. On February 3rd in East Palestine, Ohio, a train carrying approximately 150 cars of toxic chemicals derailed. The derailment caused a large explosion and subsequent fire, releasing an unknown amount and combination of toxic fumes and chemicals into the surrounding environment. Local residents of the town are complaining of rashes, coughing & breathing problems and headaches, while officials are still investigating the issue. Additionally, the spill contaminated nearby waterways and…
Connecting Past & Present – Urbanization & Parks
March 4, 2023 By: Jason Senna
Thomas R. Detwyler and Melvin G. Marcus claim that the urban ecosystem rarely restores water and air to the wilderness in the same beneficial condition they were collected by the municipal. The reading “Ecosystems and Air Quality” posted on the United States Environmental Protection Agency website connects to Thomas R. Detwyler’s and Melvin G. Marcus’ views in “The Place of the City in Environmental History” by Martin V. Melosi. The “Ecosystems and Air Quality” media item states how “aquatic life, watercourses, protected natural areas, and plant communities” suffer acid and eutrophic devastation through ozone, sulfur, and atmospheric nitrogen. One learned…
Exercise 3
February 16, 2023 By: Siyuan Ge
Title: Patrols work, but community-based conservation needs a rethink, study shows By by Malavika Vyawahare on 11 March 2022 Link https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/patrols-work-but-community-based-conservation-needs-a-rethink-study-shows/ change in LAHow micro forests can combat climate change in LA The recent study from Uganda’s Kibale National Park demonstrates the complex nature of conservation efforts and the importance of community engagement. The study found that patrolling has been successful in deterring poaching and increasing the population of nine mammal species, including five monkey species. However, increasing prosperity in neighbouring communities did not necessarily translate into a reduction in illegal activities such as hunting because when people become wealthier,…
Exercise #3 Connecting Past and Present
February 6, 2023 By: Nahian Adiba
Parks Movement The Sundarbans played a powerful barrier for Cyclone Amphan, slowing its pace by 70 kilometers per hour. This mangrove forest reduced tidal surge height by 3 to 4 feet. It is not the first time the Sundarbans have served as a windbreak. It reduced the strength of such winds during the 1988 and 1997 cyclones, Sidr in 2007, Aila in 2009, Roanu in 2016, Bulbul in 2019, Fani in 2019, and Amphan this time. There was a time The Sundarbans were at risk of being exploited for some governmental projects and powerplants. It associates with a point in…
Connecting Past and Present – Ted Turner & Jane Jacobs
January 28, 2023 By: Richard Scott
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/article-ted-turner-reserves/ This Ted Turner article gave me more hope and understanding of the word ‘conservation’, which was flipped upside down by Steinberg, Pinchot, and Nash in Topic 1, Unit 3. Turner juxtaposes Pinchot’s great fact that conservation equates to development. As Nash reported: it was humans over nature in early 20th century. But we now know it should be humans with nature, and Turner’s properties give us hope. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-in-working-to-preserve-the-greenbelt-im-reminded-of-my-late-next-door/ In Gideon Forman’s opinion piece, it follows on with the theme of humans with nature, instead of humans using nature for their own means. The awakened people protesting to halt an…