Wilderness and Wildlife Conservation
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In some circles, the late Julian Simon has fame as a Dragon Slayer. The Dragon that Sir Julian slew was the dread Doomsdayer. The largest and most fearsome of its many poisonous heads was Ehrlich. Not only did Sir Julian lop Ehrlich off with his magic sword Blind Optimism, he pried back [...]
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In the last “Around the Campfire†I argued that Nature conservationists, who work to protect wilderness areas and wild species, should be called conservationists, and that resource conservationists, who wish to domesticate and manage lands and species for the benefit and use of humans, should be called resourcists.
I also believe that Nature conservationists [...]
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“I’ve stirred up the anthill by warning that worldviews and policies of resourcism and enviro-resourcism are undermining and weakening certain conservation organizations and the whole conservation community. In the next issue of “Around the Campfire,†I’ll look at the bedrock of the conservation mind—that when we really dig down deep, Nature conservationists believe that wild [...]
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For over twenty-five centuries, the written record carries descriptions of damage wrought by too many people, and the worries of wise people about the consequences of human population growth. I think a careful search would find such writings even earlier. Had we the tools and could find the artifacts, we might find like [...]
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The beating heart of the 1964 Wilderness Act is the definition of Wilderness Areas as places “where man is a visitor who does not remain.†This idea of uninhabited solitudes upsets some intellectual critics of the Wilderness IdeaÂthe so-called wilderness deconstructionistsÂand their resource exploitation allies.
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