Your Opinion
In the comments, post answers to these questions:
1.) What is your definition of wilderness?
2.) What is wrong with the environment today?
3.) If you had one wish you had to use to protect the environment, what would you wish for?
4.) If you were to invent something to make a more sustainable society, what would it do?
5.) What is your most memorable experience in the natural world? Please describe.
6.) Do you believe that biodiverse environments like rainforests and coral reefs should be protected? Why?
7.) How has Cobwebs and Seaslugs changed the way you think about the environment/ nature?
8.) What do you do to cut carbon emmissions?
9.) What do you do toraise awareness about the environment?
10.) What is your definition of sustainability?
11.) What should BC’s government do to ensure that it’s citizens have a sustainable, livable future?
12.) What should Canada’s government do to ensure that it’s citizens have a sustainable, livable future?
13.) What should all the governments of the world do to ensure everyone has a sustainable, livable future?
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1. My definition of wilderness in where there is no pollution, trash and human-made chemicals. There would be trees and lakes and streams everywhere, and lots of wildlife. There would be no man-made pathways, only underbrush that has been used over and over again by animals that it has been worn down.
I am only going to answer 1 question right now. Why do we have to put our name and the date in?
Oh well, I’ll do it anyways.
Name: Naiya
Date: December 9, 2007
8.) What do you do to cut carbon emmissions?
I have drastically reduced the amount of driving that I do by telecommuting, using public transportation, and moving out of the suburbs into downtown.
I know the person who made this site. She is in my class!
Oh yeah great job Mina!
Hi Mina,
Good for asking these questions. Even philosophers are arguing over what is wilderness, and trying to define it.
5) I have had many memorable experiences in the natural world (thank goodness) but I think the most memorable ones will be at the tops of mountains. That is the place for me where I have felt as small as those flowers that can only grow up there a few centimeters off the ground. I remember once on a hike in the Rila mountains of Bulgaria walking with one foot on snow and one foot on summer soil, along the snow line. In winter the mountains are a very different place. Nothing like walking through a blizzard to realize that you have no bearings that you cannot see the person that is a few feet ahead of you and for all you know you might be all by yourself there if it wasn’t for the tug on the rope that held us together and that most of what I had learned in school was useless to my survival. Even our well trained guide had trouble. These are my most memorable moments when I was shaken out of my illusions, and made to feel so small that I had to pay attention and to listen with all my might.
daniela
Aug. 21, 2008
So to go back to wilderness. Maybe my definition of her for now will be:
1) A place where we are shaken out of our illusion that we can control what happens. A place where “city knowledge” grows weak, dissipates, and you are left full of wonder and attention, where you will have to listen with all your might, learn fast, and nothing but that intense presence can ensure your survival. Of course, there is more. And of course, it is probably not a place we can drive to.
daniela
Aug. 21, 2008