Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Corey Maiden Chapter 28 Ecology of Eden


Chapter 28 Ecology fo Eden

This chapter is about reclaiming “Arcadia”. Eisenberg here suggests 2 different ways of doing so, one being coupling, and the other being “the careful swain”. I would have to say coupling is probably the most proven method. The pre Columbian Americans and South Americans seemed to use this method, but it could be argued that this only works on a smaller scale than what would be possible here in the United States now. While the South Americans especially had massively populated cities surrounded by wilderness, but even these numbers, which I heard somewhere estimated up to 100,000 aren’t even close to the number of Americans that would have to be crammed together. Not only that but we are dependent on this land to produce our food. It isn’t as thought people are spread out for no reason at all. People use their land to produce the things we need.

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