This lecture from Dr. Wai Chee Dimok was very enlightening and encouraging because it really emphasized the importance or collaboration between the science and humanities. She was able to do this using Elizabeth Bishop and William Blake\u2019s work and it reminded me a lot of our lecture from this series a few weeks ago involving Alice in Wonderland and linking these themes to environmental issues.<\/p>\n
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I think this is a very powerful way to frame these issues and it can help influence more people to be more cautious with their carbon footprint and their overall pollution output. By using science for the more critical proof that these issues are dangerous and serious, and then using literature as the relatable side of it to emphasize how these issues reoccur throughout our human history, we should be able to draw more people to action or to at least make them understand the scope of the situation at hand.<\/p>\n
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In the previous lecture about Alice in Wonderland the global environmental issues were connected to very old literature displaying how people are able to communicate real dangers through alternate realities. I think this relates to this lecture as well because Bishop and Blake represent the two different sides of this coin. The difference is in their thinking about the impact of human actions on global warming, and a lot of this lecture discussed how there isn\u2019t agreement on this from both sides of the topic.<\/p>\n
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One part of this lecture was very new information to me and that was the portion regarding Singer\u2019s \u201cAnimal Liberation.\u201d Dr. Wai Chee Dimok pointed out how he believed that eating animals and meat is leading to global warming and I had never heard this idea before. I know all about many other forms of pollution and I know that our carbon emissions from out homes and cars are a very serious problem. I do not know how much people are negatively impacting the environment by eating meat, especially when it is locally sourced and not directly from these larger companies with monopolies on the industry. I personally love eating meat and it makes up a large portion of my diet and although I try to be conscious of where I buy meat and what brand I buy, this definitely made me question how much I was contributing to the overall issue of global warming by so regularly eating this meat.<\/p>\n
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Although this section of the talk was extremely interesting to hear about and research further, I am not sure about its direct relation to the presence of the past theme and especially its relation to connecting the humanities and science. I personally thought a lot of the other points brought up were really strong and I definitely think collaboration between the sciences and humanities is necessary to help society as a whole. However, I don\u2019t know how vegetarianism and eating less meat directly relates to intertwining this disciplines to create a better and more environmentally conscious world. I do think that this discussion was very thought provoking and made people think about all of these issues and more which in itself is effective for helping to create change and more open-minded people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This lecture from Dr. Wai Chee Dimok was very enlightening and encouraging because it really emphasized the importance or collaboration between the science and humanities. She was able to do this using Elizabeth Bishop and William Blake\u2019s work and it reminded me a lot of our lecture from this series a few weeks ago involving … <\/p>\n