Summary Of Island Civilization By Nash

The article “Island Civilization” provides different scenarios we can take to make mother nature a better place. Nash’s four perspectives are the wasteland, the garden world, the primitive world or the island civilization. I believe the island civilization will be the best option to try to better mother nature. The way we abuse mother nature is unnecessary and the author gives us ideas to try to better it. This could be a beginning to help the wildlife and our world with global warming and all the negative were doing to our planet.

Nash agrees that island civilization can be an alternative for our society. It will take time for people to adapt to a lifestyle in one spot. Nash emphasizes that the Island Civilization can work he says in the article “It’s a vision a dream.” Nash observes that humans will have boundaries drawn around the human presence not around the wilderness. We should have more than one Island to have a civilized life. It would take time to build and a lot of money but it would benefit our wildlife and our planet.
I believe that humans will feel like they won’t have any freedom in an island. By focusing on staying in one spot the author overlooks the deeper problem of transporting food or human supplies. I think Nash is mistaken because he overlooks the problems humans can have staying in just one spot over the years. People would need homes the best source of shelter can be skyscrapers that can fit hundreds or maybe thousands of people. People would also need jobs to provide for themselves and their