The Organic Machine: The Columbia River
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Most accounts of environmental crises pit the ôvillainö (people) against the ôheroö (nature). In Richard WhiteÆs (1995, p. ix) The Organic Machine, the author explores the interrelationship of the Columbia River and people in a new light, one where he posits the river as ôàan organic machine, as an energy system which, although modified by human inventions, maintains its natural, its æunmadeÆ qualities.ö This analysis will explore WhiteÆs unique theory, in order to demonstrate why the Columbia River is, indeed, an organic machine. Whereas other authors who address waterway environmental crises often blame development, dam construction, dyking, logging, and other manmade impositions on nature, White provides a new environmentalism that encompasses pollution, environmental destruction, inorganic naturalness and other factors. WhiteÆs narrative extends from the days of the explorers and indigenous populations abundant along the Columbia River to contemporary hydr
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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