The Construction of Nature - Nature vs.Culture_澳门葡京手机版app下载

2016-04-05T10:07:20.327Z
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“ If you need to use a cannon to get a fish moving through a river system, then there might be something more fundamentally wrong with the infrastructure along the river system”. Here I am paraphrasing David Montgomery, professor of geomorphology at the university of Washington. He makes a compelling argument. As is often the case in places where fish ladders needs to be constructed, the river system it self has been imposed on by human activity. There seem to be a parameter within thinking about preservation of nature that “good” nature is undisrupted by human activity. And that if humans had not interfered in the first place, there would be no need for preservation activities. However, as part of nature we do have impact on the ecosystems we operate in. We inevitably design and shape our surroundings either by intention or accident. As a consequence we change our surroundings. But is this change solely bad?