Question 4

    As Pocahontas says, "you think you own whatever land you land on, the Earth is just a dead thing that you can claim." Yet there's so many things about our Earth that prove that it's alive. The dead trees in the winter, reclaiming their leaves by the time Summer comes, the chirps you hear in the morning, the fresh animal footprints in the snow. These are all characteristics to show that our Earth is in fact alive. Yet us humans, are killing our Earth. Humans were never meant to be driving gasoline fueled cars that pollute our air, we were supposed to be wild animals, surviving with other wild animals. And those same wild animals that we were supposed to be living with, are now being trapped in enclosed cages by us, treating them as fun attractions instead of a sign of life. 

    For example, in The Clan of One Breasted Women. In this passage, it entails on how the government in the l960s were testing out nuclear weapons. The people living around these test sites would be affected by health conditions such as cancer. Yet the government refused to acknowledge their wrong doing of not only the land, but also its people. When land is exposed to nuclear activity for too long, the radioactive material can remain in that certain area for many years. Take Chernobyl for example, many say that it won't be live-able for humans until another 20,000 years. 

    This shows how great of an impact that we as humans have on the Earth. Global climate change is due to us, the rise of sea levels is due to us, and the mass deforestation of many sacred forests is due to us. As Pocahontas says, "You can own the Earth and still all you own is Earth until you know the colors of the wind."

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