Response to Roderick Nash´s Essay Island Civilization: A Vision for Human Occupancy of Earth in the Fourth Millenum

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In Roderick R. Nash’s essay “Island civilization: A vision for human occupancy of earth in the fourth millenium” he quotes “Of course a change like this one [Island civilization] involves compromises with human freedom.” Nashs plan for the future is to make self-sustaining “islands” of civilization. These civilizations would be clusters of the population, and quite similar to cities. His plan also relies on advanced technology that would not harm the Earth and that the “islands” remain isolated from each other. All food production, manufacturing, sanitation, and other services would take place directly within the civilization. This would mean that we as humans would lose many rights that we have had for hundreds of years such as human freedom. I do not believe that with all of the people obsessed with their rights that anything like island civilization will happen anytime soon.

Today people prosper on how many acres they have and how they have over 6000 sq ft homes. It will be hard to convince any sane human that we should go live on a “island civilization” that is isolated and con...

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