The biggest challenges your generation will face are:
sustainability
pollution
climate change
resource constraints
biodiversity
Recall: energy->water->food->culture In semester one, we learned about the building blocks of these concepts. In semester two, you will see them integrate more and more...
Consider:
Europeans 1492 -> The New World Earth 2022 -> Mars
"go west young man"
Sustainability 2025: Semester two
Conservation/Land use
Energy
Pollution
Climate change
Challenge:
How can you describe a round staircase to someone without using your hands? How can you describe deep nature to someone who has never seen it?
National parks: positive, motivated by joy of the wilderness and nature
Sustainability/climate change: negative, based on fear: "climate crisis"
Tito Jankowski : "the climate crisis is the biggest business opportunity in the history of mankind"
Three main points: Living together, thinking of forever...
Tragedy of the Commons
Conservation movement
Urban Sprawl
Random question: GPS ranching-why is this closer to pre-contact buffalo herds?
"More than any other artist of the century, he would help transform the meaning of "wilderness" in America and change what people thought and felt about their own land"
"It's a place that you step into, and you don't know what's going to happen, a place that can surprise you, it's a place where you are small, where being small is not a bad thing, where being small is actually a wonderful thing"-Carl Pope, Sierra Club
"...The world is beautiful, that humanity is part of this larger world, that the concerns of the moment are part but not separate from a larger system of forces that that connect us to all of creation"Jonathan Spaulding, Biographer
Question: How did his photographs change the awareness of the public? People usually care about what they know...
Teddy Roosevelt used this to create parks in the Southwest US...
