Stewart Brand provided a synopsis of Peter Kareiva’s talk given at the Long Now Foundation. In general, environmentalist have earned the reputation of being “misanthropic, anti-technology, anti-growth, dogmatic, purist, zealous, exclusive pastoralists.” Kareiva gave several examples of how that reputation was earned. In Green rhetoric, everything in nature is described as “fragile!”—rivers, forests, theContinue reading “TNC’s Chief Scientist Considers Conservation in the Real World”
