David Gessner’s speech did not really catch my interest. Although he made a lot of interesting points about where our environment is going, and how we should be treating the problem, I can’t really say I’d be interested in reading his books.
I liked that he seemed very down to earth, talking about the cognitive dissonance between the way we live and the way we know we should live, because it was a very relatable topic. I definitely agreed with him that its hard to be an environmentalist when people are saying that everything we are doing is “the end of the world.” I also liked the way that Gessner compared humans to Northern Gannet birds. I had never heard of the birds before, but the way that he talked about how they are glutinous, and eat as many fish as possible and compared them to humans it really rung true. When he was asking the question of whether or not it will be possible for us to be happy with less than we have now, I found myself really thinking about the issue.
However, I think that a lot of the points he made were not anything that I would really want expanded upon. They stimulated a lot of personal thought for myself, but I don’t think that I would be propelled to by a book and read more about what another person thinks we should do. I liked hearing his main points, but I think that reading a full book on environmental reflections similar to those he talked about would just bore me. I’m glad I went to the reading-- it gave me a lot of food for thought. Gessner is asking a lot of good, important questions, and I hope that someday soon we will find an answer for them.
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