Outside reading-Nick Thompson

One outside reading of mine is called the Problem of Wilderness. This reading talks about how people view wilderness as either untouchable and sacred or a wasteland for humans to further develope and exploit. The author says that both of these views are an unhealthy relationship between human and nature. It is unhealthy to make wilderness parks and tear down any proof of human being there because that is not considered preservation. But, it is also unhealthy to disrespect nature by thinking that we can just do anything with it and tear it down in order to develope it.