Reading Linda Hogan’s novel Power allowed me to broaden my perspective on how climate change and environmentalism affects people differently. I appreciated this book for bringing my attention to how climate change and environmental laws affect indigenous communities. I have always assumed that environmental protection laws, such as the Endangered Species Act, were inherently good and beneficial laws that should be held up without exception. As a result of reading this book and our discussion in class I am prompted to think more about how laws impact different groups and cultures. Power demonstrates how there is a need for exceptions within certain laws that impact how people can, or cannot, operate within their culture. With the focus on the Endangered Species Act, it was especially noticeable how colonizing powers changed how they are allowed to interact with their environment. Colonizing people came into areas, such as America, and permanently changed the environment, and wreaked havoc on the ecosystem. Due to development and encroaching on the panther’s territory, the panther became endangered, but then it is expected that indigenous people change their culture and ways to protect the animals they were not endangering in the first place. I think reading this book is a step towards thinking about the pros and cons of environmentalism in a more holistic and fully rounded way, and moving forward I want to be sure to consider all aspects and potential impacts of environmentalism and climate change from points of view that I may not normally think of.