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Keeping the Wild

Against the Domestication of Earth

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Keeping the Wild
George Wuerthner
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Against the Domestication of Earth

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Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated, an engineered global garden managed by technocrats to serve humanity? The schism between advocates of rewilding and those who accept and even celebrate a “post-wild” world is arguably the hottest intellectual battle in contemporary conservation. In Keeping the Wild, a group of prominent scientists, writers, and conservation activists responds to the Anthropocene-boosters who claim that wild nature is no more (or in any case not much worth caring about), that human-caused extinction is acceptable, and that “novel ecosystems” are an adequate replacement for natural landscapes. With rhetorical fists swinging, the book’s contributors argue that these “new environmentalists” embody the hubris of the managerial mindset and offer a conservation strategy that will fail to protect life in all its buzzing, blossoming diversity. With essays from Eileen Crist, David Ehrenfeld, Dave Foreman, Lisi Krall, Harvey Locke, Curt Meine, Kathleen Dean Moore, Michael Soulé, Terry Tempest Williams and other leading thinkers, Keeping the Wild provides an introduction to this important debate, a critique of the Anthropocene boosters’ attack on traditional conservation, and unapologetic advocacy for wild nature.

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Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth
2014, Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Imprint: Island Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Lives Not Our Own
1. Rise of the Neo-greens
2. The Conceptual Assassination of Wilderness
3. Ptolemaic Environmentalism
4. With Friends Like These, Wilderness and Biodiversity Do Not Need Enemies
5. What’s So New about the “New Conservation”?
6. Conservation in No-Man’s-Land
7. The “New Conservation”
8. The Fable of Managed Earth
9. Conservation in the Anthropocene
10. The Myth of the Humanized Pre-Columbian Landscape
11. The Future of Conservation: An Australian Perspective
12. Expanding Parks, Reducing Human Numbers, and Preserving All the Wild Nature We Can: A Superior Alternative to Embracing the Anthropocene Era
13. Green Postmodernism and the Attempted Highjacking of Conservation
14. Why the Working Landscape Isn’t Working
15. Valuing Naturalness in the “Anthropocene”: Now More than Ever
16. Wild World
17. Living Beauty
18. Wilderness: What and Why?
19. Resistance. 20. An Open Letter to Major John Wesley Powell
Epilogue: The Road to Cape Perpetua
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Notes
Index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
333.72
Library of Congress
QH75-77

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XVI, 272 p.
Number of pages
272

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OL43141105M
ISBN 13
9781610915595, 9781597264488

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