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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation
  • Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 08:56:10 -0400

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org>
Date: Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:05 AM
Subject: Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Published on Independent Science News Today (Tuesday 12th May, 2015)

Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation
by George Wuerthner (Ecological Projects Director of the Foundation for
Deep Ecology)

http://www.independentsciencenews.org/environment/anthropocene-boosters-and-the-attack-on-wilderness-conservation/

Synopsis: Conservation is under attack. The attack comes from individuals
and institutions (here called Anthropocene Boosters, but sometimes
'Neo-greens' and other names) whose intention is to undermine traditional
wildlife conservation and replace it with a custodial mindset. The
Anthropocene Boosters argue we cannot preserve wilderness, since it no
longer exists. Therefore, conservationists should stop criticising
corporations, or the idea of natural limits, and instead should help manage
the earth for human welfare and progress. The new mindset, argues ecologist
George Wuerthner, is in some parts simply erroneous and in others based on
'straw man' arguments. It is, of course, dangerously hubristic, but it is
also a spearhead for corporate domination of the earth.

Please share
yours sincerely
Jonathan

Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA

www.independentsciencenews.org
and
www.bioscienceresource.org

jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org
Skype: jonathanlatham2
Tel: 1-607-319-0279

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and
opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those
who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible
government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays,
Propaganda

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Lawrence F. London
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  • [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation, Lawrence London, 05/12/2015

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