Idealisms to Blame To compare the ecosystems of New England before and after the colonists arrived is to compare two different and ecologically distant places. In the early 1600’s New England was a seemingly untouched plethora of animals and plant life. The only inhabitants within this land were several Native American Tribes (Cronon pg. 5). Then the colonists arrived with their European ideals, diseases, and unquenchable thirst for profit. Some historians blame the entire systematic deterioration …showed first 75 words of 1159 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1159 total…of profits, and built a “New England” out of earth’s newest frontier. The Natives had no say or choices in what happened, but rather were utterly mistaken and confused by the colonists. To compare the ecosystems of New England before and after the colonists arrived is to compare two different and ecologically distant places. The colonists’ idealisms and capitalist belligerence towards commodification forced the land and the Natives to drastically transform for the worst.