"island Civilization" Rodernick Nash Thesis Anaysis

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with species. We’ve pushed wild beings into least desirable corners of the environment¨ (267) This is entirely true! People today focus on animals being a luxury and actual not animals. They should be treated like people and not property, although they are in a house. Nash also mentions giving animals the sames rights as human in other words (267). This is socially possible due to the amount of animal lover in the world. But there may be complications with this. People could argue animals don’t deserve the rights people do because they the inability to have emotion and empathy but that’s when they are wrong. Two researchers at Goldsmiths College in London set out to determine if dogs are capable of empathy : an ability to truly understand emotion. The dogs responded 15 out of the 18 in the study by seeking out the person in distress, even if that person was the stranger. “On the surface, it certainly seemed as if the dogs were demonstrating empathy,” says one of the scientists.

Nash’s ideas to enhance the wilderness and civilization may improve the world if we were ever in distress but that’s far from happening. The society we live in today is so high-tech that thinking one day we could be in a “wasteland” seems just impossible. Roderick Nash’s plan is not practical to the way our economy is shaped, nor would it help, it would only cause destruction. Throughout his article he has degraded the seven billion of people on earth by describing us as “myopic” as well as putting a limit on how many children a woman can have. All in all , I do not think this scenario will work if we ever end up in a wasteland.