Mountain, Appalachian: A Short Story
By Lane Worthing
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Throughout Environmental Science this year, we have learned so much about the fundamental forces of nature that govern our world and how humans have affected them. In my final project, I wanted to discuss some of the most interesting and important topics we learned about, but from a slightly different perspective, so I wrote from the perspective of a mountain (that’s why some information is in footnotes - it’s relevant, but I didn’t think a mountain would know or care about the obscure terms we’ve come up with for things like the Laurentide Ice Sheet, for instance).
Overall, I wanted to convey the sense that the history of the natural world goes back so much farther and is so much bigger than human history, yet we are still drastically changing so m...
