Class Reflection September 11 2008

Building upon what Kaleigh had said, I think that it is important to acknowledge the disconnect that exists between (wo)man and nature. We have been living under the false pretense that nature is at our disposal to be poked and prodded. Our relationship with nature consists of a lot of take and not enough give, we are now beginning to see the consequences of this mentality, our glaciers are melting and 1/3 of our wildlife species are dying. We will soon no longer have the option to think of the natural environment as separate from our day-to-day experience, instead, we will look to nature to dictate our designs.

This being said, I do not feel that our reliance on technology or, “machines”, to drive our day to day existence needs to be called into question. Technology has allowed us to progress in ways that would have been unthinkable even 25 years ago. Perhaps much of our existence is being shaped by machines, but if we are able to find a way to work these machines into the natural fabric of our ecosystems than we will really prove our human intelligence.