Eric's blog effectively demonstrates both the Human Geography and the Physical Geography concepts of time and how they relate to the world in which we live. The views as a "physical dimension" and "social change" relate to human/social geography and physical geography perspectives respectively.
This blog focuses primarily on the human perspective, and how the world changes with the "modernization" of our social lives. Clifford describes this best in the text when he says “We live in a world we call ‘modern’. Being Modern is to ‘move with the times’, to be ‘up to date’ to be a user of the newest gadgets or ideas” (Clifford, 141). This is especially evident in the places we visited on the first field trip, and how the advances of technology have left remnants of a time that has passed and how people have lived, and also physical scars on the earth. He alluded briefly to the iron furnace, and how that is now just something that remains from a much different world. One aspect that was not mentioned in the blog post was how the earth has reclaimed the area around the iron furnace, with time. And amount of time that for us humans is fascinatingly long, but for the earth is just a short snippet. The forests in the area were cut down to burn in the iron furnace, but with the march of time, the forests have grown back. Unsuspecting passersby would never stop to think about how the landscape looked much different just a short century ago, but time has slowly crept on and reclaimed the forest.
He goes on to mention that time has rendered the iron furnace obsolete, with the advances of technology and the "modernization" of our world, which relates directly back to the windmills we visited. In my opinion, this also relates directly to the quarry, and how the advances of technology and the demand for cleaner energy has left that huge scar on the earth that would not be there otherwise.
Clifford, Nicholas J. Key Concepts in Geography. 2nd ed. London: SAGE Publications, 2009. Print.
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