Letter From The Future

“The End of Nature,” by Bill McKibben is a startling book of non-fiction depicting the future in store for the environment and humans. His somber yet hopeful approach allows readers to sense the real intensity of this situation of mass environmental changes whilst remaining expectant of the advancements in the

Since the dawn of mankind, clusters of innovations throughout history have allowed for societal progression at an explosive rate. While primarily fostering a centrifugal system of advancements; humans’ interests in expansion is spiraling out of control. Throughout history elements of collapse can be traced through civilizations and natural resources. Wright’s argument posits humans have hyperextended their utilization of resources at a rate that cannot be replenished, therein by setting up the world for the largest ecological collapse in history (Wright, 2004, pg. 130-131). Due to the cyclical process of past collapse and reformation humans have an advantage to rectify our current consumption rates ultimately avoiding a fate similar to past societies (Wright, 2004, pg. 131). As such Wright’s argument should frame larger discussions of responsible citizenship.

Have you ever wondered what our future will be like when we are old and grey, when we have grandchildren of our own? In Chip Ward’s letter to his grandchildren “We screwed up” (2012), he writes about how wasteful, greedy, and self-centered he and his generation is when they were younger. Ward’s generation did not stop to think once about how incompetent they were about using non-renewable resources such as coal, oil, gasoline, etc. They also forgot to keep in mind how being piggish with these materials would pollute the air we breathe and the water we drink today. Chip Wards generation was the most avaricious, wasteful and egotistical generations of all.

Thus any sort of progress that we thought was made, dissipates and overall shows that we in modern times, much like the ancient civilizations, are also ignoring the signs that they chose to ignore and in the end will cause the deterioration of society through man’s selfish acts. We are following the footsteps of the past civilizations; we are running out of natural resources by overusing them. For example, one of the longest record-breaking droughts is currently happening in California. This drought is due to climate change that we have caused and continue to make worse by using natural resources that we already have a limited supply of such as coal, natural gas, water, oil, etc., at an alarming rate. At this rate, we appear to be mimicking the people of Easter Island, who essentially dug their own graves by using up their natural resources and then having no way to escape the consequences of their

This environmentally friendly objective is quite the opposite of Americans’ scouring past to use up all the resources on the continent. Today, Americans know that they must create a sustainable future so that their descendants can survive on this planet for generations to come. To understand this current American ideal, one must look at the past and the damage that has been done through

If we choose to keep cutting down trees and consuming natural resources then they won’t be able to replenish fast enough and there will be none left, posing many problems like having fresh water available to drink, wood to build products, and land to farm on. Obviously not many people are properly educated on environmental issues and how they make them worse but if we as a society choose not to educate those who aren’t then they will continue to use too many resources and not think about how their lifestyle is hurting our environment, which will make environmental problems even worse than they are today. Now as humans we’ve always wanted to get bigger and better, but if we keep expanding and building as much as we are then there won’t be as many resources available because we’ll have taken over spaces and land that was needed for those natural environments to live. Although this seems like a drastic point and something that we can’t really stop, if we always think that we need to keep building, someday we just won’t have any land to do it and also at the same time realize that we don’t have resources

The world is being sickened by the needs of man in today's society. People, love to live in luxury without knowing the consequences of their actions. This is because man lives at a pace set by himself, and not one that is naturally set by nature. This is shown excellently in a quote inside of the novel Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. The Quote states, “the rapidity of change and the speed with which new situations are created follow the impetuous and heedless pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature.” The Earth is experiencing such rapid and disastrous change due to the wants of man. Man demands too much from the earth and not only is this changing the Earth, but it is also depleting many non renewable resources

Arrival of an Alien written by David Suzuki attempts to give insight to the reader about the impact of human actions and disapprove its result on the environment. Suzuki explains the technological advancements represent the knowledge of the human brain yet these advancements are supplements to the prior knowledge obtained by homo sapiens. Our human ancestors are what have brought us to where we are in our advancements but todays civilization can not execute the tasks preformed by our antecedents. In the article Suzuki metaphorically refers to humans as aliens, demolishing the environment with every movement. However, we are able to see the ramifications of our actions but we do not respond in a way that will restore the damage.

ou can only have so much good before it is all gone. Resource depletion is the biggest environmental issues known to man. As humans we’re using what we have to live, but we use more than we give out. Through science, we’re finally starting to understand that people are using too much of the resources and altering the face of the earth. If we’re not careful, these problems can’t be fixed.

1. This article relates to environmental science because it discusses the humans in the environment and if precautions are not taken the resources will be eventually all used up, leaving no resources for the future overwhelming

Laurance argues that human beings have the heaviest impact on nature. The author givessamples of each environment and how it has changed for the worst. There is fact provided witheach section giving examples of each and the measurements of what has changed. This sourceprovides information from scholarly, well known authors, and facts from many scientist aroundthe world. I can use this source to show how human beings have such a drastic effect on theirenvironments, proven with facts and statistics from all over the world.

As the upcoming generation, I am technologically advanced, knowledgeable, and aware. I am passionate towards the problems I can mend and adamant towards those who've failed to be amended. With this, I'd like to address a nightmare that continues to flourish within our world. This nightmare cab be recognized as the lack of absorption and protection given to our environment.

There are many great books out there but you haven't read any like these. Nicholas Montemarano and Rebecca Behrens have published two amazing stories called “Dear Future” and “Lost and Found”. One has treasure and one has the future but both are great. “Dear Future” and “Lost and Found” have similarities and differences such as conflict and how the setting creates a specific mood.

What would the world be like without people? It’s a scary, and complicated question. A world without people would be a completely different place. Air pollution would stop, but what about nuclear reactors? What would happen to endangered and invasive species? What would happen to species that thrived off our existence? How long would our cities stand? We do have places on earth that have been abandoned by people. So, we do have windows to what would happen without us. So, let’s begin.

We as a society have reached one of the most crucial time periods in the history of our world. Due to the way we have used the resources on this earth we have created a situation in which our climate is drastically changing. The burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil has caused gases like carbon dioxide to become trapped in the atmosphere causing a natural greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect has caused the earth’s average temperature to rise and has resulted in arctic glaciers melting. These glaciers had gases trapped inside them that are now being released into the atmosphere further raising the earth's temperature. Due to the way we are polluting our air we have caused global warming. This global warming has caused stronger natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires putting our society in more danger than ever before.