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“[T]he Industrial Revolution…separated us from nature. But nature is coming back with a vengeance, tied to population growth.” (Kaplan 7) Relate Kaplan’s assertation to his analysis of the contemporary world in “The coming Anarchy,” incorporat

An assessment of Nature’s Vengeance



Robert Kaplan, a traveled man, and author, used this statement made by Homer-Dixon in his manifesto titled The Coming Anarchy: “[T]he Industrial Revolution…separated us from nature. But nature is coming back with a vengeance, tied to population growth.” To validly assess this statement one must take into consideration the relationship between humanity and its surroundings. I will use the three extremist views of religion, politics, and society through the documents of Genesis, Lynn White’s The Historical Roots of Our Ecological System, and Kaplan’s The Coming Anarchy to aid me in proving this statement true.
In the first book of Moses titled Genesis, the first of the three extremist views is presented-the religious issue of man versus nature. In this “Creation Myth,” God assembles the world in six days and rests on the seventh. The idea that man has dominion of all its surrounding and that a monotheistic God created...

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