HOPKINS, THE HUMANITIES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Bump

I decided to focus on industrialization and pollution. I experienced the pollution first hand when I was in London over the summer. What this made me think of was Darwin's study on the London moths. For those of you who are not familiar with this study, here is a summary as I understand it: Certain moths that used to be white started to turn black over a relatively short span of time. Why was this happening? Apparently the pollution from industrialization cause mutations in the white moths - causing many to be born black. Of course not all the moths were black, but it seemed so because of Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest." The black moths camouflaged in the dirty air so that it was more difficult for their predators to see them - the white ones stood out and were quickly eaten.

This made me think about industrialization, pollution, and their roles in the environment and in nature. Many people say that what we do the earth is so small - nature will outlive us and our deeds. Hopkins states in "God's Grandeur" that "for all this, nature is never spent." I agree that our lives and our time here is relatively short in comparison to nature's time span, but we still have to be responsible for what we do to the earth and how we treat her. Our actions do have consequences in one way or another.