Since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s,
the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality,
ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy. With these changes
has also come an increased popular resistance to environmental
reform, but, as Eric T. Freyfogle reveals in this book, that
resistance has far deeper roots. Calling upon key environmental
voices from the past and present--including Aldo Leopold, Wendell
Berry, David Orr, and even Pope Francis in his Encyclical--and
exploring core concepts like wilderness and the tragedy of the
commons, A Good That Transcends not only unearths the causes of our
embedded culture of resistance, but also offers a path forward to
true, lasting environmental initiatives. A lawyer by training, with
expertise in property rights, Freyfogle uses his legal knowledge to
demonstrate that bad land use practices are rooted in the way in
which we see the natural world, value it, and understand our place
within it. While social and economic factors are important
components of our current predicament, it is our culture, he shows,
that is driving the reform crisis--and in the face of accelerating
environmental change, a change in culture is vital. Drawing upon a
diverse array of disciplines from history and philosophy to the
life sciences, economics, and literature, Freyfogle seeks better
ways for humans to live in nature, helping us to rethink our
relationship with the land and craft a new conservation ethic. By
confronting our ongoing resistance to reform as well as pointing
the way toward a common good, A Good That Transcends enables us to
see how we might rise above institutional and cultural challenges,
look at environmental problems, appreciate their severity, and both
support and participate in reform.
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