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The Energy Reader takes an unflinching look at the environmental
devastation created by our thirst for energy--including supposedly
clean renewable sources. From oil spills, nuclear accidents, and
mountaintop-removal coal mining to oversized wind farms and
desert-destroying solar power plants, virtually every region of the
globe is now experiencing the consequences of out-of-control energy
development. Essentially no place is sacred, no landscape safe from
the relentless search for energy resources to continue powering a
culture based on perpetual growth. Precious wildlands, fragile
ecosystems, even our own communities and children's health are at
risk.
Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of
conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and
reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those
places where human activities, technologies, and developments
prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing
number of voices are suggesting that protected areas are passe.
Conservation, they argue, should instead focus on lands managed for
human use--working landscapes--and abandon the goal of preventing
human-caused extinctions in favor of maintaining ecosystem services
to support people. If such arguments take hold, we risk losing
support for the unique qualities and values of wild, undeveloped
nature.
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 Soule, 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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