Response to Gary Snyder's Turtle Island (2)

In Turtle Island, the poem The Call of the Wild really caught my attention.  Snyder neglects Americans in the sense that we destroy earth by dumping poisons and explosives around the world and feel no shame for doing so.  At one point in time, there was not damage done to the environment causing so much harm, but recently it has gotten worse.  As the poem states, "A war against earth, when it's done there'll be no place a coyote could hide."  This reflects on the theme of a fear of nature, implying that other countries use acts of nature against us, causing us to fear "the call of the wild" or either care less about what we do to destroy it.  The theme of this poem seems to be the basis for all poems included in the book.  Snyder works to illustrate the point that our actions are destroying nature and that at some point, nature could quite possibly be gone.  It's not going to last forever, and if these actions continue, that chance increases.  If by ironically 'fearing nature' the human population backs away from nature itself, then perhaps the destruction will decrease in intensity and allow for better things to happen.