The_North_American_Continent

The North American Continent Thomas Berry is a ecological philosopher who writes the history of the North American in the various chronological stages in his article called the North American Continent taken from his book, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future. He begins his article by portraying the remarkable geographical features presently in North America. He then goes on describing the effect of European settlers on the indigenous native Indian, and their spiritual attachment with their land. Furthermore, he discusses and emphasizes on the exploitation of land and wildlife by the settlers. Berry strongly urges and focuses on the following main points: a). The effect of the European settlements in North America. b). The present environment issues and conflicts due to the modernization phase of North America. He uses various examples to get his view across about the European settlements. Like for north, various, settlers, land, european, berry, america, very, through, settlements, points, main, great, found, exploitation, exploit, essay, environment, effect, discusses, auk, article, american, yet, writes, work, word, wildlife, way, view, urges, understood, unbelievable, tribes, toward