Humans VS Nature

             After going through what we needed to read and after reviewing the topic of the segment, I can see connections being made with all of the pieces. We can clearly see in the writing and the videos that everything revolves around nature. Nature is all around us everywhere we go. We see it everyday. Bringing this back to our pieces for the segment, In the “Gas land” trailer we see that there is water contamination. The federal government is buying portions of people’s lands and drilling for oil. The correct term for this is hydraulic fracturing; it’s where you drill into the ground for oil to rise. But as the federal government is drilling they are starting to pollute the water supply destroying nature. As water supplies decrease for people then comes the possibility to no life. In our second video clip “Spike Lee”, we see a man going to New Orleans to see the aftermath of the horrible tsunami that happened. Spike soon realizes that there is not much help being provided to the people affected in the tsunami. He states in his video that there is little respect towards people in New Orleans from the federal government since they do no provide enough support for people. As this video continues there are images of the environment being shown. We can see that nature is drastically being affected and this seems to be a problematic concern for people. In “Vanishing Ice”, we see that glaciers, sea ice, and ice sheets are rapidly changing because of human production of greenhouse gases. What humans are doing now to nature is affecting us long-term. Will there be a future if we keep releasing more greenhouse gases? This is a question we will just have to wait and see on because as of right now ice contains 75% of the world’s fresh water. Then we had “Snow Fall”, we see a lot of ups and downs with nature and horrific accidents with conditions of snow fall. Nature is presented to me in a way that beauty is death. I say this because people chose to try something different like going back country skiing, this then leads to seeing nature from a different perspective but in unlikely events turns into death (that being the avalanche).

            “The Tyger” poem seems to bring us what nature really is using the tiger as a depiction. This seems to be the leading point in the poem because William Blake also wants us to know about humans and nature and how they relate. The author uses the tiger, humans, and nature as a stepping-stone because he’s showing us they are all good in their own way but still are dangerous. In the other poems we see unity with humans and nature but still that affect of danger is lurking around still. Overall we can see positive and negative depictions of nature but they all connect to each other by relating it all to humans and nature. We see that most of the time nature doesn’t like to comply with humans but that still doesn’t mean that it can’t be fix, its just going to be a long-term.