Write a short essay about ″my opinion″ and my own understanding of environmental politics/ethics/environmentalism, Choose either one to talk about, do not do all of them. Use these quotes in the essay; incorporate the two quote into the essay. Make sure the quotes back up the answer to your own argument. Also make sure the essay is backed up by the other essay written about William Cronons quote. That essay is provided in the file given. Quotes: ″But all conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish. ″ – Aldo Leopold “According to anthropocentric worldview, animals and plants are not the direct bearers of moral value; instead they have value only in relation to their importance to human beings.″ – Marion Hourdequin ″The truth about stories is that′s all we are.″ – Thomas King This is the quotes by William Cronan that the essay needs to be based off of. “What we mean when we use the word ′nature′ says as much about ourselves as about the things we label with that word. As the British literary critic Raymond Williams once famously remarked, ′the idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.′ (This part of the quote is what is being highlighted) What happens to environmental politics, environmental ethics, and environmentalism in general once we acknowledge the deeply troubling truth that we can never know at first hand the world ′out there′–the nature that we seek to understand and protect–but instead must always encounter that world through the lens of our own ideas and imaginings?”– William Cronon, from Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Humans’ Place in Nature The prompt: In the first short essay you explained what Cronon is asserting about the meaning of ″nature″ and how we encounter ″nature″ in this quote, using our course texts to support that explanatory argument. Great job! But now comes to fun and hard part: in another short essay (500-1000ish words) I want you to answer Cronon′s question (highlighted above) by focusing on one of the categories he identifies (i.e. environmental politics OR environmental ethics OR environmentalism in general). As in the first essay, use at least two course texts to substantiate your argument. In other words, your prompt for this essay is essentially: ″What happens to environmental [politics/ethics/environmentalism in general] once we acknowledge the deeply troubling truth that we can never know at first hand the world ′out there′– the nature that we seek to understand and protect– but instead must always encounter that world through the lens of our own ideas and imaginings?″ Some tips or ideas: 1. this is ultimately a prompt that asks you to argue for your own understanding of environmental politics/ethics/environmentalism in the context of this course′s largest ideas [in Essay #1 you grapple with those largest ideas]. So it′s time to voice your opinions and understanding tied to specific evidence and reasoning. 2. Consider: what exactly is ″deeply troubling″ in this quote? 3. Consider: We can define ″politics″ ″environmentalism″ and ″ethics″ in different ways in different contexts. You may want to specify the scope of how you′re treating these terms (for example, if you focus on ″politics″ you may be talking about U.S. partisan, electoral politics or global politics or the political dimensions of personal actions. You can′t treat them all in one essay!)
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