Donald Worster- Shrinking the Earth: From an Age of Abundance to an Age of Limits
Date and Time
Friday Mar 6, 2015
6:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
Friday, March 6, 2015
6 p.m. Reception
7-8:30 p.m. Presentation to the community audience
Location
River Falls Public Library
140 Union St, River Falls, WI
Fees/Admission
Free and open to the public
Website
Description
Walker D. and Helen Bryant Wyman Visiting Professorship in History Presents:
Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of U.S. Environmental History, University of Kansas
Shrinking the Earth: From an Age of Abundance to an Age of Limits
Through maps and photographs, Worster demonstrates how our perspectives on the earth and our understanding of human beings have changed dramatically over the past 500 years. For centuries sweeping from the West throughout the world was a common view that we live in a world of abundance which must be conquered and used. Now with all nations facing limits to resources and ecology we are forced to question, revisit, and ultimately revise the old paradigm.
