parallels of four mile creek to cold war foreign policies

This topic submitted by Audrey MacWood ( macwooab@muohio.edu ) on 1/24/03. [ Rivers Team: Audrey MacWood-Section: Cummins/Kaufman]

the egalitarian structure of the watershed ensures that all organisms add to the habitat according to their capabilities and take according to their needs. watershed ecology parallels communism and the impact of industrial agriculture and development is similar to that of U.S. foreign policy during the cold war. industrial agriculture and development throws off the system by flooding it with its excesses and inadequacies in hopes of making the system unstable. i would like to analyze the impact of runoff and destruction of the riparian corridor on the ecology of the stream and compare/contrast that with the role of the U.S. in the cold war. i am also assuming that in the end industrial agriculture and development will eventually push the system so far out of equilibrium that it will collapse, as happened with Russia. this incorporates natural system aspects and the sociocultural implications of the stream and its destruction.

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