Communicating Nature Chapter Summary

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Communicating Nature, by Julia B. Corbett
Review
Ryan Yazzie
ENV390W

Many who have read this book have become angry with this book as the author put a lot of her own viewpoints in the text. This book which is sometimes used in academics as a form of textbook has stirred enough controversy to the point of students threatening to drop the class all together. I for one did not see any text that could possibly offend anyone. I took great pleasure in immersing myself in Corbetts ideologies and learning about how advertising can affect you on an almost subliminal level.
Largely this book talks about different ideology’s of different demographics. An ideology can be demined a belief of ide that can be based on a political theory, policy of economic theory. Over
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Polls have seen that most of the United States population support the idea to protect and preserve the environment and in some cases are willing to pay an extra dollar or two just for the cause. Could this just be a bandwagon that all have jumped on? Corbett says the polls have fluctuated over time since the 1970’s. Environmental knowledge plays a enormous part in who will actually participate in an environmental cause. Statically, the less wealthy have a low understanding – or care- for nature and environment. Ive seen this first hand can attest to its validity. After high school I moved to a low income area of south Scottsdale. Many of the individuals in the area did not have a designated recycling bin and I have also been witness to garbage being thrown right on the ground with absolutely no regard for what will happen to this discarded piece of Styrofoam. As a kid growing up in a small nature filled town of Flagstaff this frankly appalled me. I feel this reinforces the theory of childhood shaping our future environmental