week 7

I read Edward Abbey's article about Lake Powell and Glen Canyon. He starts out talking about Glen Canyon and the things he enjoyed about it. He loves nature and wildlife and can't see how anyone can love cement. He doesn't think cement is for people. He doesn't think Lake Powell is a lake, but a reservoir with a fluctuating water level that leaves water marks on the canyon walls, which means to him that it is not a natural lake. He then compares what used to be Glen Canyon and what it looks like now. How it had wildlife, birds, insects, trees, sandy beches, a flowing river, waterfalls, pools of water, and life. All of those things were buried, drowned, or crowded out, and no longer exist there. He says that the difference between Glen canyon and the present reservoir is the difference between life and death. He thinks Lake Powell is a graveyard.
He says Lake Powell is no longer a place of natural life and that Glen Canyon was. He talks about how people before could take a trip to Glen Canyon and it would be beautiful and anyone could do it alone because it was not dangeous. You could eat by going fishing and have a wildeness adventure. Now, people have to pay to take a tour and see everything. He says that the things you can see now has been decreased. That you could see more when it was just Glen Canyon. He mentions all the problems with Lake Powell like debris and cost.
He thinks that Lake Powell should be drained and that we should let nature make it beautiful again. He predicted that within thirty years it would be back to its former self.
I think it was very good and made me think a lot. I have never thought about any of that stuff before. He made me think about Lake Powell differently and I almost agree with him. I like how he compared both of them so that he could show what we have now and what it was before. I think he did it so we could ask ourselves what we would rather have.