Ptolemaic Environmentalism
Neo-green environmentalism is holding onto the core belief in the rightfulness or inevitability of a human-governed planet.
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Lives Not Our Own
Keeping the Wild was conceived to confront the notion of human hegemony and also to join the growing conversation within the conservation movement about the so-called Anthropocene.
Wild Carbon
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the landmark Wilderness Act, so I thought I’d add a carbon perspective to the debate: Is there a role for wilderness in the twenty-first century?
“We crackle to life in nature”
I don’t think we’re so powerful that we could wipe out nature, but I think we’re powerful enough to wipe ourselves out.
The end of the end of nature
It seems obvious: to be fully alive you have to interact directly, respectfully and in physical proximity with a variety of other fully living things as much as possible. There is no substitute.
The River and the Road
Float down the remote Kobuk River and you might encounter grizzlies, salmon, bald eagles, and caribou. Oh—and open-pit mines, if Alaska’s governor gets his way.