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Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth

by George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, Tom Butler
Keeping the Wild: 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 books 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 is an extraordinarily important book. It identifies the great and irreversible damage to Earth's biodiversity that will follow if the 'Anthropocene' ideology is allowed to stall the global conservation effort."

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"...[T]he book contains thought-provoking and damning examples of how the 'Neo-greens' have abandoned the preservation of Nature in favor of human re-engineering of the earth's natural ecosystems and dwindling wilderness."

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"We all need to read [Keeping the Wild] and become fully aware of the dangers it describes. We need to familiarise ourselves with all the arguments these writers have so clearly and thoroughly articulated if we are to have any hope of countering the insidious Anthropocene trend before it gets any further entrenched."

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"In a collection of thoughts from prominent conservationists, editors Wuerthner, Crist and Butler build their case against our move toward the anthropocene, where there is a focus upon human dominance over the environment."

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"...an invaluable read for those who love wild places."

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"As an account of underlying concepts, the history of ideas, and neo-green philosophy...this book is outstanding."

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"I found all the essays well written ... thought provoking. ... I recommend the book to any resource manager who must consider the diverse and often conflicting views of various entities when resolving natural resource issues."

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"a seminal body of impressive scholarship throughout and very highly recommended"

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"...immensely stimulating"

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"Keeping the Wild isn't a potboiler; it is a pot-stirrer. If the book doesn't succeed in igniting real debate about the direction of the conservation movement, then perhaps it will at least jolt the green establishment out of its uninspiring narcolepsy."

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"...contribute[s] to an important and unfolding dialog..."

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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 Soul , 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.


About the Author

George Wuerthner is the ecological projects director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, where he does research and writes about environmental issues. For many years he was a full-time freelance photographer and writer and has published thirty-five books on natural history, conservation history, ecology, and environmental issues.

Eileen Crist teaches at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science and Technology in Society, where she is advisor for the undergraduate program Humanities, Science, and Environment. She is author of Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind and coeditor of Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis.

Tom Butler, a Vermont-based conservation activist and writer, is the board president of the Northeast Wilderness Trust and the former longtime editor of Wild Earth journal. His books include Wildlands Philanthropy, Plundering Appalachia, and ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth.


Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Lives Not Our Own \ Tom Butler 

 

PART I. Clashing Worldviews

Chapter 1. Rise of the Neo-Greens \ Paul Kingsnorth

Chapter 2. The Conceptual Assassination of Wilderness \ David W. Kidner

Chapter 3. Ptolemaic Environmentalism \ Eileen Crist

Chapter 4. With Friends Like These, Wilderness and Biodiversity Do Not Need Enemies \ David Johns

Chapter 5. What's So New about the 'New Environmentalism'? \ Curt Meine

Chapter 6. Conservation in No-Man's-Land \ Claudio Campagna and Daniel Guevara

Chapter 7. The "New Conservation" \ Michael Soulé 

 

PART II. Against Domestication

Chapter 8. The Fable of Managed Earth \ David Ehrenfeld

Chapter 9. Conservation in the Anthropocene \ Tim Caro, Jack Darwin, Tavis Forrester, Cynthia Ledoux-Bloom, and Caitlin Wells

Chapter 10. The Myth of the Humanized Pre-Columbian Landscape \ Dave Foreman

Chapter 11. The Future of Conservation: An Australian Perspective \ Brendan Mackey

Chapter 12. Expanding Parks, Reducing Human Numbers, and Preserving All the Wild Nature We Can: A Superior Alternative to Embracing the Anthropocene Era \ Phil Cafaro

Chapter 13. Green Postmodernism and the Attempted Highjacking of Conservation \ Harvey Locke

Chapter 14. Valuing Naturalness in the "Anthropocene": Now More than Ever \ Ned Hettinger 

 

PART III. Values of the Wild

Chapter 15. Wild World \ Roderick Frazier Nash

Chapter 16. Living Beauty \ Sandra Lubarsky

Chapter 17. Wilderness: What and Why? \ Howie Wolke

Chapter 18. Resistance \ Lisi Krall

Chapter 19. An Open Letter to Major Wesley Powell \ Terry Tempest Williams 

 

Epilogue: The Road to Cape Perpetua \ Kathleen Dean Moore

Acknowledgements

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781610915588
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
05/06/2014
Publisher:
Foundations for Deep Ecology 3
Language:
English
Pages:
248
Height:
.70IN
Width:
6.13IN
Thickness:
.75
LCCN:
14935630
UPC Code:
9781610915588
Author:
George Wuerthner
Author:
Eileen Crist
Author:
Tom Butler
Subject:
Environmental Studies-Environment

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