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Paul Shepard's Nature and Madness

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decry the plight of the Barn Owl in Seattle, Washington, or point to the thinning ozone layer above as proof that global warming will have dire effects on our ecosystem.  But professor Paul Shepard, in his book, Nature and Madness considered that our pollution of the environment just really a cause, not the reason for natures disintegration. Death, disease and  poor air quality werent of any concern thousands of years ago when cave people ruled the earth and existed on what they could hunt and forage for food. In attempting  to control our land and to wrest nature rituals out of our life, he contends, we have ended up with a rift between ourselves and our habitat. Overall Theme  The question about where and when humans took the wrong turn in terms alienation from nature is one that has been debated  by many writers over the years (Kirkpatrick, 1998). In Nature and Madness, Shepards contention is that the decline between nature versus man actually happened at the point during which human  beings abandoned hunting as their central activity in life (Kirkpatrick, 1998). Shepards argument in is other works is that, despite the efforts  on behalf of those who embrace the concept of "green," including clean air, food and water, nothing much has really changed, eve with the "business people, cab drivers, homemakers and  politicians . . . with the right mix of oceanographers, soil experts or foresters . . ." (Shepard, 2001). Something seems to be blocking the will of people to do  right by their environment, he noted (Shepard, 2001). His contention is, that it was our daily interaction with the ecosystem as hunters