Peak Oil Survival

After reading through this article, I was very shocked. To think that our lives could come to matter of surviving, and struggling for fresh water. Many things that I read in this article I had no idea about before, and had never thought about certain events in such a way. For example, the fact about rain water, at the beginning of chapter 3, how Aric McBay states how rainwater could become the new means of bottled water. It was also very shocking how bluntly McBay gives an argument towards innovative technology, saying how even at this point, what is the reason to try and fix the situation we find ourselves in. If this is true, then this article will become a survival guide for everyone in about 50 years. Through the way McBay describes his techniques, everyone will need to live following these guidelines.

“Ecopsychology and the Destruction of White People” and “The World Without us”

Many connections can be made between both texts, but the one that stood out to me the most was that of personification. Both pieces of work speak about the earth and describe it as if it was a person, and I think that through this way of writing, it is more effective and easier to get the point across to many different types of audiences. According to the interview with Carl Anthony in “Ecopsychology and the Destruction of White People” he describes situations like this ““wanting to hear the voice of the earth, the notion that nature is crying out in pain…” through this not only do we get a strong image of the state the earth finds itself in, but we also are able to better understand how bad the situation is. This quote shows how the inventions of mankind have begun to harm the earth, and how everything that we take for granted is taking a toll on the world.
As Alan Weisman stated in his article “ The World Without us”, the quote that stated “Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.” This vivid described quote shows how everything that mankind has spent hundreds of years building up to be better than anyone else, will eventually be taken over by the most powerful thing, nature.