Environmental Managers Perspective
European Pioneers in America:
By the time
the Captain John Smith entered America, his main goal was to become of that
place a industrialized and innovating country. European Pioneers started to
implement technology and constructing buildings and roads with the purpose of
creating a country that will one day be complete industrialized. For them, the
wilderness was not necessary, and in fact they were correct. The European
pioneers where the ones who implemented the technology in America. As we all
know, at that time, Europe where the only ones civilized enough to control
technology, and until now, they continue to. At the beginning the Native
Americans had never seen that kind of technology such as wheels, fire guns and
other machines that the Europeans brought in. Pioneers had a goal of personal
development and the idea of individual competition and improvement. After this invasion, the Native Americans
tried to fight their independence and self-preservation, but the truth was that
Europeans were much more prepared and effective than them. Native Americans did
not give up, but Europeans had a development plan in mind, and they accomplished
that. Now at days America is the world’s biggest economical nation, and it, in
a way controls the world. Americans
didn’t want to become industrialized, but when they finally gave in, the effect
of Europeans pioneers was already strong and developed.
Native Americans:
Native
Americans didn’t harm the environment at all because they had a really strong
relationship with it. They all had a really strong connection with the earth
and always stayed in small units which kept them even closer, always aware of
the different resources it offers. They always defined themselves by the land saying that they were sacred
places which needed to be preserved. They also thought of nature and the
environment as a unit with their physical and also spiritual universes which
bonded with the natural and supernatural. All of their traditions, origin
cycles and cosmologies connected in a certain way with the environment.
Perspective as Ecological Managers:
Because of
the European pioneer’s invasion to America, and implementation of technology,
America has become what it is now.
Despite the fact that Native Americans had no idea of technology
implementation, they adapted to the situation, and developed from there. It was Because of technology why Americans
developed, and the combination of resources made them able to increase to a
higher level, where they exploited their resources until becoming what they are
now. Being realistic, without the technology implemented by the Pioneers,
Americans will be one step behind world development, and they will be
struggling to keep up.
That is a
clear example of how European Pioneers were essential to the development. Technology
was essential to develop, and once again is proven that without technology is
necessary to the world, and it is the key to development.
We as
ecological managers think that it is really good what Native Americans did with
the environment and how they treated it because they didn’t do any harm to it,
but what we also think is that maybe they took it a little too far. It’s fine
to take care of nature and at the same time feel so connected, but we all need
a balance and that’s what they needed, a balance with technology. Also our point
of view is that pioneers were the key for development and without them we
wouldn’t be in the place we are right now and that’s why we say that Native
Americans would’ve been a lot better if they also would’ve had some technology
in their lives.
Graphs and Photos:
We can analyze this graph with the point of view of ecological
managers. our perspective is according to the exploitation of natural
resources in the US during the period of 1800´s. There are four parts on
this graph which explain the pre-modern, urbanizing/industrializing,
mature industrial, and post industrial. There are three lines that
describes the blue is of crude birth rate, the red about crude death
rate, and the black of total population. The red and the blue are almost
the same and have almost the same changes. and also the black of total
population is how it has increase a lot. The ecological managers are the
ones that have a perspective really balanced and we understand that
nature and technology are really important. We can see how technology
and everything has improved during the years. This graph that talks
about death and birth rates are really important to understand and how
the improvements of resources such as water supply, sewage, food
handling, etc.
Bibliography:
"Native
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<http://cpluhna.nau.edu/Research/native_americans1.htm>.
"The Frontier In American History: Chapter
X." The Frontier In
American History: Chapter X. University of Indiana, n.d. Web. 21 Mar. 2013.
<http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/turner/chapter10.html>.
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