Cronon Review

Since the publication in 1983, William Clan's "land change" has been admired by historians. This book was the first book of Krolon, and in 1984 received the Francis Parkman Prize for the Best New Books in American History. The purpose of this book is to evaluate New England ecosystem change and Indian and Indian change. The extent to which a relationship occurs. Changes in the colonial era and dominant production methods. He believes that the transition to European agriculture and unsustainable extraction and commercialization of capitalism have led to changes in the relationship between humans and the environment.

William Cronon recently appeared in the National Park documentary of Ken Burn. Cronon is a famous historian, but his understanding of the background of the protection movement is limited in my opinion. Cronon is part of a new post - modern movement calling protection movement an imperialist or trivial - just concentrate on placing the place aside for hiking. However, he seems to have overlooked many important background aspects of the discussion. The following is a criticism of his article "Worst of the Wilderness", he outlines many of his concerns. I wrote this comment shortly after his article appeared in Uncommon Ground, but I think it still relates to the discussion in today's larger wilderness after seeing Burn's movie. You can see the original paper of Cronon from here.

William Cronon, a historian and president of the American Historical Society, criticized the romantic idealization of romance in contemporary environmental movement. "Wilderness is the basis of uncorrected basis that is the foundation of many of the modern environmentalist principles of quasi-religious values," Cronon asserts, but to some extent live in the industrial civilization of the city, but at the same time I'm pretending to be. Motherland is in the wilderness, to some extent, we allow you to avoid responsibility for the lives that we actually lead. "

As Kroon implied in his last few sentences, the supporters of the wilderness did not "run away" to the wilderness. Many of them have not reached the wilderness because they have to spend too much time discussing with people like Cronon - they should know better than environmentalists - wilderness and human rights and If we want to live, I think there are many people who do not recognize the necessity of destroying the natural system. Farmland is a simplified ecosystem. It is not autonomous landscape. It requires energy input and care of humans. But this does not mean that every acre of the earth should be controlled and manipulated by humans. Wilderness is a place that does not require human input and works best without most human intervention. I am talking about the scale