Understanding the Interactions of Environment and Society For Worstner, the idea of a political economy is key to understanding the interactions of environment and society. Worstner is useful to point out the role of government working together with certain privileged business interests to create the political economy, which is a new environment-devouring creature of the twentieth century. (Gallagher paper) Through Rivers of Empire, we observe the social, economic, political, and environmental developments that detect the …showed first 75 words of 733 total…

…showed last 75 words of 733 total…state expertise, state technology, and state hierarchy.”(Rivers of Empire pg. 135) This dominance led to the abuse of irrigation, agriculture and much more. The West went though dramatic changes. We see that the different morals in these chapters where the greed of mankind prevails over the communal distribution of wealth. “Total power, total possession of program. Nature in the West could not be allowed to defy it, nor could human cussedness.”(Rivers of Empire pg. 188)