Palliser warns of the danger of wildfires, saying, “Wildfires, when unmanaged and out of control, are extremely destructive.” (Palliser) Kristensen, Louise J., and Mark P. Taylor. "Fields and Forests in Flames: lead and Mercury emissions from wildfire pyrogenic activity." Environmental Health Perspectives 120.2 (2012): A56+. General OneFile. Web.
The use of pathetic fallacy also adds to show the bleak and sinister atmosphere which the characters are in. The country was “burned away”, the “blackened shapes of rock” standing out of the “shoals of ash” and “billows of ash rising up and blowing downcountry through the waste”. The imagery used here is very striking and gives us an image of the wasteland. McCarthy also uses plosives to further highlight the extent of the desolation of the wasteland. For example trees are described as “bare and blackened”.
The Road By Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy’s subject in his new novel is as big as it gets: the end of the civilized world, the dying of life on the planet and the spectacle of it all. He has written a visually stunning picture of how it looks at the end to two pilgrims on the road to nowhere. Color in the world — except for fire and blood — exists mainly in memory or dream. Fire and firestorms have consumed forests and cities, and from the fall of ashes and soot everything is gray, the river water black. Hydrangeas and wild orchids stand in the forest, sculptured by fire into “ashen effigies” of themselves, waiting for the wind to blow them over into dust.
Carson – Silent Spring RA Final Draft The 1960s were a tumultuous time, full of change not only in America, but throughout the world. Many environmental movements were present during this time of mass demonstration in America. One notable environmental argument was that against pesticide use. In this excerpt from noted biologist Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, the author uses various rhetorical terms to both denounce and vilify the use of parathion, a pesticide, declaring that the environmental effects are far more destructive, widespread, and detrimental than was previously thought. Through her use of evocative diction, Carson is able to illustrate the widespread effects that parathion can have in language that is both strong and easy to understand for the reader.
Danielle Maxwell Aldo Leopold Land Ethic Aldo Leopold is one of the most well know environmental writers and activist of the twentieth century. Although he has produced many works on conservation and the environment, his most famous is A Sand County Almanac. A Sand County Almanac gives the reader a vision of the world through Leopold’s eyes. A world of beauty, complexity, and interconnections, where humans are but one piece of the puzzle. Not only does Leopold accentuate the beauty in the natural world, he highlights the terrible consequences of an industrial society along with his opinions on how things should change to save the natural world.
Fire of Peshtigo, Wisconsin in 1871 Abstract The most devastating fire in U.S history in terms of human lives and property lost was in Peshtigo, Wisconsin in 1871. The fire killed 1,300 people in a single night. More than 1 million acres were burned. Many months of extreme drought combined with the land-clearing practices of the time ("slash and burn") caused many small fires to be whipped into a huge forest fire when a cyclonic storm blew up on the night of October 8, 1871. Fire of Peshtigo, Wisconsin in 1871 HOW DID IT START?
This simple but powerful allegory describes the results of most of the colonizing in the history of our planet. The spare text and stylized illustrations tell the chilling story of invasion, cultural subjugation and environmental destruction in simple terms. This is an excellent opener for discussion at many levels. Background: The Rabbits is an allegorical story that can make many people uncomfortable. It shows an area, place, or country being overrun with rabbits and that is ultimately devastated by the environmental impact.
The language used to describe the setting clearly connotes the awfulness of the setting and perhaps therefore foreshadows the tragic events, which happen in the setting itself. The first descriptive simile ‘a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens;’ sums up the grimness of the place and helps the reader imagine the scale of ashes and dirt which the underclass of the 1920’s have to live in. These people are described further as ‘ash-grey men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.’ This description of the men crumbling suggests that they are adding to the mounds of ashes that lie in the Valley. This is true as the Ashes have been born out of the industrialization of man and are a result of the New Great City developing. The city has dumped all its un wanted waste into the Valley including its un needed underclass.
West Virginia Chemical Spill Effecting Our Environment Industrialization has greatly impacted our Earth. In the article Federal Grand Jury Investigates West Virginia Chemical Spill, the authors, Drew Griffin and David Fitzpatrick, emphasize the damage the chemical spill did to our planet. Many people were left with no water to use and the environment was greatly damaged by the spill. Chemical plants allow our society to develop some service such as water, electricity or disposal services. Conversely, Chemical plants can contaminate the pure water or create harmful diseases to humans and the Earth.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1992) express their growing concerns of the destructive consequences of alienation and the suffering that results of this. Influenced by the rapid growth of technology and environmental concerns of their composing times, they illustrate their concerns from different perspectives. Both texts explore the suffering of the environment when one isolates themselves or neglects the natural world. Shelley who was heavily influenced by the principles of Romanticism and was personally exposed to writers and poets who believed in the sublime and rejuvenating power of nature, focuses on the suffering that can occur when one isolates themself from the natural world. It is when Victor