America and the Environment Essay

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America has had a long history of friendly relationship with nature. The American community is fond of surfing, boating, hiking, camping and hunting. The complex relationship of the land to nature attracted the attention of the Europeans who claimed that the country had not been habited before and it was endless. But there were other tribal people before this and their relationship with nature was favorable and their perception of nature was unlike that one of the Europeans who wanted to exploit the available resources to make a profit.  America is deeply concerned about global warming and in each year, environmental day is observed on the 22^nd day of April during which the greater American community is reminded of her obligation towards establishing a natural environment fit for all her citizens. America's attitude towards nature has undergone gradual revolution since the exploratory times of Christopher Columbus during which time he made fascinating claims of a country with a dense forest cover in which trees stretching up to the sky. Early reports on the New World as America was by then called showed that it was a very fertile land capable of supporting a bountiful agricultural industry. The new world had a limitless supply of natural resources in its boundless water bodies, ore deposits, and a diverse fauna and floral empire (Nash, 97). It is possible to conjure the human race towards living such as "the song of Spider Woman and the Sun God as a result of the deep connection among the creation causing a lack of distinction between the natural things and humans.

The aspirations of the in coming people were building a New Jerusalem in the New Land. Associated with a sacred civilization with no moral decay and corruption as was the case in Europe.  Nature was seen to take up the role of fearful opponents and the pilgrims perceived themselves as being "mission in the wilderness". They perceived nature as being dangerous force whose alignment suited the powers of darkness with so many threats as well as temptations and consequently their opted to shun the milder climates at Virginia colonies in favor of settling to the North as a result of the fear of the  a speedy degeneration of their people by the rich soil together with good weather. Early European settlers most notably the Spaniards and the British fantasized about a booming wine industry which could  emerge as a result of harnessing the vast wild grapes that formed a significant part of America's natural forest cover. This land that the Europeans fantasized about had long been inhabited for over a thousand years before Columbus' arrival.  The indigenous communities of America had developed a unique relationship with nature but unlike the arriving Europeans, did not consider nature to be a pool of resources to be exploited for economic development. (Columbus, 645).

Although the pilgrims were in the first place suspicious about nature hence requiring to put it under trial, they later became acquainted and they build towns, developed farms and also schools attempting to recreate "New England". It was in the process of clearing terrain that they discovered that their immediate neighbors were the wolfs, an issue that was later associated with bestiality cases.
Most of the earliest European settlers in America were religious immigrants who wanted to escape religious persecution which was going on in England and Netherlands. As religious people, they aspired at building a new religious empire in their new found home on biblical terms just as the case of the Israelites exodus, an empire that was sacred, corruption free and well civilized than Europe.

They realized that to achieve their mission, they had to tame the generosity of nature and turn it into a productive garden, much like the biblical Garden of Eden. So a few years after arriving in America, they were busy building schools, towns and farms and there was an ever increasing need to clear more forest cover to give space for their endeavors. Sooner than later, they started noticing that the population of wolves around settlement areas was dwindling. This marked a major human-nature conflict (Nash, 187).