The Human Environment: Grappling with the Complex History behind America’s Best Idea

June 17, 2021

America has seen its share of environmental turmoil in the past five years. Our interns, the average age of whom is 20, entered early adulthood just as the struggles of Flint, Michigan, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the burning bush of California swept mainstream media. It would be easy for us to assume that US institutions are at their weakest point in decades. The National Park system, however, is strong. There are 423 National Park sites,...