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Keeping the Wild

Name: Keeping the Wild
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Against the Domestication of Earth

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Edited by George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, Tom Butler
Imprint: FOUNDATIONS FOR DEEP ECOLOGY 3
Release Date: July 14, 2014
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Pages: 288

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Is it time to embrace the so-called Anthropocenea'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-wilda 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 ecosystemsa are an adequate replacement for natural landscapes. With rhetorical fists swinging, the book's contributors argue that these new environmentalistsa 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 Soulé, 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.

Foreword
Introduction: Lives Not Our Own \ Tom Butler

PART I. Clashing Worldviews
Chapter 1. Rise of the Neo-Greens \ Paul Kingsnorth
Chapter 2. The Conceptual Assassination of Wilderness \ David W. Kidner
Chapter 3. Ptolemaic Environmentalism \ Eileen Crist
Chapter 4. With Friends Like These, Wilderness and Biodiversity Do Not Need Enemies \ David Johns
Chapter 5. What's So New about the 'New Environmentalism'? \ Curt Meine
Chapter 6. Conservation in No-Man's-Land \ Claudio Campagna and Daniel Guevara
Chapter 7. The ""New Conservation"" \ Michael Soulé

PART II. Against Domestication
Chapter 8. The Fable of Managed Earth \ David Ehrenfeld
Chapter 9. Conservation in the Anthropocene \ Tim Caro, Jack Darwin, Tavis Forrester, Cynthia Ledoux-Bloom, and Caitlin Wells
Chapter 10. The Myth of the Humanized Pre-Columbian Landscape \ Dave Foreman
Chapter 11. The Future of Conservation: An Australian Perspective \ Brendan Mackey
Chapter 12. Expanding Parks, Reducing Human Numbers, and Preserving All the Wild Nature We Can: A Superior Alternative to Embracing the Anthropocene Era \ Phil Cafaro
Chapter 13. Green Postmodernism and the Attempted Highjacking of Conservation \ Harvey Locke
Chapter 14. Valuing Naturalness in the ""Anthropocene"": Now More than Ever \ Ned Hettinger

PART III. Values of the Wild
Chapter 15. Wild World \ Roderick Frazier Nash
Chapter 16. Living Beauty \ Sandra Lubarsky
Chapter 17. Wilderness: What and Why? \ Howie Wolke
Chapter 18. Resistance \ Lisi Krall
Chapter 19. An Open Letter to Major Wesley Powell \ Terry Tempest Williams

Epilogue: The Road to Cape Perpetua \ Kathleen Dean Moore
Acknowledgements
Contributors

"Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth is an extraordinarily important book. It identifies the great and irreversible damage to Earth's biodiversity that will follow if the 'Anthropocene' ideology is allowed to stall the global conservation effort."

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