Dodson Ch 5

I think Dodson did a nice job in his analysis of China's depletion of resources. He covered multiple facets of how the destruction is taking place: air, land, water. My only problem with his construction of this section is that he didn't connect them all very well. He attempted to at the end as a summary of his points, but if he began with a point that connected all the resources together, then he would have something to refer back to in every scenario. I feel like this would have caused greater cohesiveness and would have made it easier to read. Otherwise, I felt like I was just thrown a hundred different facts and I'm rather overwhelmed with numbers rather than knowledgeable on the topic at hand. My view is that if all these bad things happen that Dodson is hinting towards, and then the likely outcome is that many of China's citizens will die or be forced to relocate seeing that China will become hazardous. So, if many of its citizens die away, then the eventual consumption of the earth's materials will start to decline as the consumers start to decline. Dodson doesn't really mention this at all in the section, but I don't believe it is all that important either seeing that his point is that the harm China is doing presently on our environment might become irreversible by that time. 

Dodson noticeably drew parallels between China and the US; so, yes his reasoning does apply to the US. Even though we are more aware of the harm we are inflicting on the environment, the country is not doing all that much to reverse its trend. I think with China's actions mirroring that of the United States, we are to realize the consequences of our actions that served as China's role model. Yet, now it might be too late. China already has in place our traits of consumption and is growing in severity. In the coming years, our country will suffer from our own and China's repercussions. It is our own fault from starting a common trend of selfishness in consumption and we have only passed along our model of greediness. 

Haley Martin