"Thinking Like a Mountain" by Aldo Leopold

               In the story we read in class "Thinking Like a Mountain", the author describes many points of views about nature and how wolves affect their surrounding of nature.
             This story is mainly about how nature sees its animals compared to how we see them. The "mountain" in this story is all nature. The mountain sees importance in the simple howl of the wolf that maybe we as humans do not realize. In the story the author says, "Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf." We are unable to see the hidden meaning of an animal that the mountain does see.
              We don't live where these animals live, nor do we go through the same troubles that they face everyday. The reason we don't understand the true meaning of the howl of the wolf is because we don't hear it the way the mountain hears it. In my opinion, diversity equals stability in this story. The more diverse the animals and organisms are, the more stable their habitats and ecosystems are. This story is a great way of showing people the wolf is an important animal in nature and we need to be more aware of that.

Ted Talk Video: Response and Summary

               According to the sustainability advisor Louise Fresco, food is as economically important as things like oil and energy for our world.
               In the video a woman named Louise Fresco has two loaves of bread. One loaf is freshly baked and represents agriculture and "true beauty". The other loaf is the name brand "wonder bread". Louise believes the "wonder bread" is the better alternative for people around the world to buy because it is mass production. She claims that sound mass production foods fee the whole world, yet leave a small role for small bakeries. Only 1% of United States population are farmers today due to the modernization of agriculture and global trading.
               Louise says we need to improve our agricultural science, also known as "good science", and we also need to improve our agricultural technology in order to maintain the environmentally sound mass production of food.