In my time in ENVS160, these are the three lessons I learned: I am but a cog in this grand machine, strength and success comes in numbers, and people often are not on the same page. The first thing that I’m going to do coming out of ENVS 160 is stop thinking that I am […]
What Can You Do?
Introduction The main argument I’ve found in Paul F. Steinberg’s Who Rules the Earth is simple: Be extra. That is to say, if you want to achieve anything, let alone anything significant, you have to think about one thousand times bigger than the thing you are trying to affect. Otherwise, nothing will get done. My […]
Getting Connected
Throughout the class, we’ve heard multiple people give their ideas. Funny thing is that if a bunch of people are roughly talking about the same topic, their ideas will sync up with each other. Here I point out Mike Hulme, Vaclav Smil, and Paul F. Steinberg’s similar ways of dealing with climate change. Both Hulme and […]
Do Not Miss the Forest for the Trees
Some Context I initially got into Environmental Studies by taking a class in my junior year of high school. It was not even an AP class, just regular Environmental Science. The class covered basic ideas of what is plaguing the earth, including units on trash and water, for example. I fell in love with environmental studies because […]