Doing Environmental History Response

In Doing Environmental History, Brian Worster shows how complex the subject of environmental history is. The study of the environment over time is in fact, the study of everything that has ever been. In comparison to the age of the universe, human habitation of Earth is merely a small flash of time. Those who tackle the monumental task of trying understand the history of the universe cannot do so without receiving doubt and controversy. Worster explains that if the scientific method is used than little controversy can occur, this however, is not true for study of the environment. When one is trying to build an understanding of things that predate themselves by billions of years, nothing can be proven as a fact. The history of the environment is also the broadest of all subjects. This field of study encompasses the study of everything. Researchers from field such as biology and anthropology are merely small parts of the giant machine needed to understand the history of our environment.