Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2015 15:42:14 GMT -8
To sum up the article: There is a school of conservation that considers a warming climate and continued expansion of human population and human consumption to be inevitable.
So rather than "waste their time" advocating the preservation of wilderness and endangered species, those "pragmatic conservationists" are willing to adapt their recommendations to what they consider the "inevitable reality" of greater and greater human domination of ecosystems — with no limit in sight.
Conservation in this country has always been a compromise against competing interests. In that compromise, conservation has yielded much and the competing interests have yielded very little. So now that school of conservation is proposing that conservation needs to yield even more to stay in the game.
And that bodes very poorly for the entire notion of conservation.
So rather than "waste their time" advocating the preservation of wilderness and endangered species, those "pragmatic conservationists" are willing to adapt their recommendations to what they consider the "inevitable reality" of greater and greater human domination of ecosystems — with no limit in sight.
Conservation in this country has always been a compromise against competing interests. In that compromise, conservation has yielded much and the competing interests have yielded very little. So now that school of conservation is proposing that conservation needs to yield even more to stay in the game.
And that bodes very poorly for the entire notion of conservation.
