So they said that all of my ideas related to the environment would be completely changed after ENVS 160. They, being upperclassman ENVS majors, told me that all environmental knowledge I knew before would be put to shame as soon as I dig in to the curriculum of ENVS 160. Some of the stuff they […]
Digging Deeper
Conversations related to environmental ideas will never be the same after I complete my first year of Environmental Studies at Lewis & Clark. My conversations will be different not only because I have learned new approaches to consider environmental thought, but also because I have become more knowledgable in general and will be able to […]
Re-Rooting the Rules
Rules are what make humans the way they are and they are also what make and what have made the world the way it is. Rules have made humans progressive and intelligent but they have also made us restrained and complacent with exploitation and global atrocities which are caused by rules. Formal and informal, rules, […]
Connections Leading to New Pathways
Being exposed to environmental literature for the first time in a scholarly context has created a new pathway in my mind about the environment, diverging my previous paths and connections to create a more analytical way of situating environmental issues. The texts that have most catalyzed the creation a new path of thought for me […]
Environmentalism: A White Man’s Ism
Environmental studies, a politically liberal field, has shown itself to be much less intersectional than I previously imagined. As a movement that requires extensive scientific knowledge about many different process in the world as well as the same amount of knowledge about social issues, environmentalism is and has historically been available to those with access […]