Stuart Abbey Environmental Impact

During the reign of Edward VI, Northumberland and Somerset attempted to rule England. They dealt with several issues, including foreign policy, finance, social and economic affairs, working as political operators and dealing with with rebellions. Northumberland proved to be successful in many of these aspects, particularly in social and economic affairs as well as finance. This is because he was able to effectively correct the faults Somerset had made such as introducing certain taxes and causing debt as well as debasement. This essay will talk about the extent of how successful Northumberland was in comparison to Somerset when it came to ruling England.

Agreeing with Abbey does have a lot of appalling outlooks. There are people that will go against his argument since his resources seem to only come from his personal experience. I will agree with Abbey because every day people are killing nature like there is no tomorrow. People are taking advantage of what nature gave us. Every where you turn, natural habitat are being disturbed just for some lousy houses. Abbey is trying to convince people to be on his side with nature. He described before the damnation that "there were springs, sometimes flowing streams, waterfalls and plunge pools." Abbey gave us an illustration how the dam looked and it was filled with "songbirds: vireos, warblers, mockingbirds, and thrushes" and "larger mammals-mule deer, coyote, bobcat, ring-tailed cat, gray fox, kit fox, skunk, badgers…" He argued nature was killed during the process of building the reservoir. This argument probably brought many people's attention to agree or disagree with him.

In the English Political Heritage there were many important events, but the influence of the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, and Philosophers.

Abbey detests the lives we lead, particularly in the city. A life in which we heavily rely on invented technologies for our convenience. He especially criticizes how the “development” of nature sites in general, or for the mere reason to serve the people and accommodate the people’s “needs” in the wild. It is for this reason that Abbey craves to live outside of the society’s influence and rule, and to live out on one’s own in solitude. The wilderness gives him a sense of freedom and offers him a refuge from humanity’s cultural dependency on the ever-constant development of technology. To him, it is a shame, and even a sin to life, to see humanity consuming and exploiting the very thing that sustains us:

     Not many people know of the used-to-be 150-mile excursion that the Glen Canyon had to offer. Not many people know how to sail a raft down a river for a week. Not many people know how to interact with nature and the animals that come with it. We seem to come from a world that is dependent on time and consumed in money. Edward Abbey is what you would call an extreme environmentalist. He talks about how it was an environmental disaster to place a dam in which to create Lake Powell, a reservoir formed on the border of Utah and Arizona. He is one of the few that have actually seen the way Glen Canyon was before they changed it into a reservoir. Today, that lake is used by over a million people, and is one of

In Appalachia laws had to be passed to keep coal companies from buying mineral rights and forcing people off of their land. If a company had the rights to the minerals under the property, they could mine without consent. It is hard to bear the thought of someone being that ruthless, but greed can drive man to do horrible things. Thankfully, laws were passed that helped the owners of the land, surface owners, to be compensated. The owner of the natural resources, mineral owners, must pay the land owner a royalty for extracting the natural resource from the property. Also, all damages done to the property were covered by the company ("Kentucky Division of Oil and Gas"). A small price to pay for multi-millionaires to increase their vast

Many companies have made money from the coal industry; however, the money has not stayed within the state. Big businesses have exploited the resources creating rich executives and leaving the Appalachian area stripped of its bounty. Currently, big businesses are involved in mountain-top removal to remove resources from our mountains. This leaves many of the beautiful mountains destroyed, pollutes the water systems and kills the wildlife and vegetation. The coal industry which once supported many families in the Appalachian area is now becoming the downfall of our tourist

Edward Abbey, in the passage “The Great American Desert” from his book “The Journey Home”(1977), asserts that the desert is a terrible place but should still be benefited from because of its solitary nature. He portrays the desert as a horrific place that no one would like to be in. He then describes the desert as a quiet place to be enjoyed. His audience includes environmentalists and those who love nature.

Coal mining is not new to the Appalachian region. Miners have been working the rich coal fields of Appalachia for generations.14, 17 The first coal mines in these states were small, local owned operations.17 This all changed, however, in the late 19th century when “agents from land companies had swept through the region buying up mineral rights, sometimes for as little as fifty cents per acre, separating the use of the surface (and tax liability) from the natural resources that might be below.”17 In legal terms, and in very fine print, these “broad form deeds often signed over the rights to ‘dump, store, and leave upon such land any and

The dusty conditions of the mine and blasting procedures were contrary to the State mining law and to the Federal Mine Safety Code under which the mine was being operated by the Coal Mines Administration (Ankeny, Gallagher, Malesky, Perez, & Smith, 2012).

Coal mining, in particular, strip mining has become the latest casualty of the growing green movement in the United States. What is strip mining? Encyclopædia Britannica Online defines strip mining as the removal of vegetation, soil, and rock above a layer of coal, followed by the removal of the coal itself (“strip”). Most Americans don’t realize the impact this material of biological origin that can be used as a source of energy (“fossil”), or fossil fuel, has on their everyday lives or the nation’s economy. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the mining industry directly employs some fifty thousand Americans with nearly half that number working in the more specific field of strip mining, or mountain top removal

Alaska should not allow the Pebble Partnership to build the Pebble Creek mine in Southwest Alaska. The benefits of the mine are nothing compared to what would happen to the environment if the mine were to be built. First off, the people in this region make their living off of the salmon who live in the rivers. If the mine were to be built, those rivers would become polluted and all of the salmon would die, meaning that everyone there would have to find a new way to survive. Not only would the rivers and water sources be polluted, but the environment in general. The mine would generate about ten billion tons of waste. This would then go onto pollute the air, kill many of the plants, and harm the animals in the region. While the Pebble Partnership

People, in general, care more about the environment as it comes to their careers. Abbey and Leopold have careers which has involved them in their specific

Of course, this subject matter is the most apparent quality of the work. Puritanism as an ethical code is quick to condemn what it sees as sinful, and even quicker to condemn laziness. But, as Emerson so successfully puts it, his activities are not laziness. He is not sitting idly, but instead embracing nature, because nature holds dually divinity and knowledge. In the first three opening stanzas, he opens defensively, emphasizing the thought that he is both putting into and getting out of his life. A clever bit of personification tells that his flowers come loaded home with his thoughts, and a metrically superb fourth stanza reveals the value that Emerson finds in nature – a secret history, told by the birds. He ends with a powerful metaphor, showing both the source and value of his art (the first, nature, the second, the fruits of nature) at once. It is further testament to his skill, I think, to write so persuasively while still writing simply, though others may be critical of this straightforwardness.

During his time, Aldo Leopold was a conservationist who believed in the longevity of the land and that we should protect it, even if we must protect the land from ourselves. While this was an unpopular opinion, realizing that the land and animals naturally work together in a symbiotic relationship to protect one another was very apparent to Leopold. He believed that humans should be doing our best to lessen our impact on the environment. Time has caught up with Leopold’s ideologies and it is time that our efforts and contributions to the earth did too.