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”
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Peter Kareiva “Conservation in the Real World”
Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy is well worth listening to. He recently gave a seminar at the Long Now Foundation. Stewart Brand, who hosts the Seminars About Long-term Thinking, noted this from Kareiva’s talk: In Green rhetoric, everything in nature is described as “fragile!”—rivers, forests, the whole planet. It’s manifestly untrue.Continue reading “Peter Kareiva “Conservation in the Real World””
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