Q Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum review the chapters by Lynn White and Tu Weiming included in this week’s reading, as well as the essay by William Cronon: • “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis” by Lynn White • “Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality” by Tu Weiming • The Trouble With Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature (Links to an external site.) by William Cronon White, Weiming, and Cronon each critique forms of anthropocentrism, but they do so for somewhat different reasons. White focuses on Medieval Christianity, Weiming on the Enlightenment, and Cronon on Romanticism. One way to see the difference between their critiques is to ask, “What does each author seem to be proposing as a solution to our current environmental crisis, and what does that solution imply about the author’s diagnosis of the original source of our crisis?” The reason these questions are linked is that you can’t solve a problem until you know what the cause is. While these authors all seem to blame anthropocentrism for part of the problem, their proposed solutions differ, which means that their critiques of anthropocentrism must differ in some way as well. This week we will work through these critiques together. After we have worked together to summarize how each author explains the ideological origin of our current environmental crisis, we will evaluate those positions in subsequent posts. Which of the three essays most accurately explains the true source of our culture’s alienation from nature? Don’t try to address all of these questions in one post! Remember that we want to find one answer as a class. Work together and build on each other’s posts. Requirements: Attend discussion on at least four separate days, and post a total of 800 words. There is no required word count for individual posts as long as all your posts together total 800 words. Nor is there a minimum number of posts, but you must post on at least four separate days by Day 7.