{"id":262,"date":"2015-09-20T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T14:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/?p=262"},"modified":"2015-09-20T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T14:36:19","slug":"human-slash-nature-or-human-over-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/09\/20\/human-slash-nature-or-human-over-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Human “Slash” Nature or Human “Over” Nature?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was first drawn to this class because of a previous discussion I had last year around humans and nature. Essentially, this discussion was–and because of its infinite structure,\u00a0is–<\/em>founded on the concept that as humans, we have claimed the title of “Takers” (a concept discussed in length in Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael<\/i>).<\/a>\u00a0Humans, for various reasons, often hold the belief that we are greater than nature and thus have the right to command it. According to this ideology, the “slash” in the course’s title would refer more to the thick, bold line in a comparative function with “human” dominating the top of the hierarchy, reigning over the subversive “nature.”<\/p>\n

And so, as Takers we have stumbled–or rather\u00a0mandated–or way into the Anthropocene. Of course,\u00a0there are pros and cons to this “age of humans.” However, I cannot help but wonder what state the earth would be in if we viewed our relationship as more symbiotic than divided. Seminars like last Tuesday’s put me in an inquisitive state, searching for and then asking\u00a0bigger and better questions. I wonder, as a person of a certain socio-economic class, what role do I play\u00a0in environmental justice? What role should<\/em> we play in human\/nature?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was first drawn to this class because of a previous discussion I had last year around humans and nature. Essentially, this discussion was–and because of its infinite structure,\u00a0is–founded on the concept that as humans, we have claimed the title… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6960,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156948],"tags":[254298,337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}