wired.com - 5/10/2009
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Ecologist Erle Ellis argues that it's time to stop trying to return the environment to a pristine state and start trying to make the best of the used planet we have created.
nytimes.com - 5/18/2009
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In a way, it was easy to take
stands during the Bush years: the Bushies and their...
allies in Congress were so determined to move the nation in the wrong direction that one could, with a clear conscience, oppose all the administration’s initiatives. ...
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Erle Ellis on “Postnatural” Environmentalism
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... , writes an provocative editorial in Wired about what environmentalism means in the Anthopocene. In Stop Trying to Save the Planet he proposes a “postnatural” environmentalism: Nature is gone. It was gone before you were born, before your parents were born, before the pilgrims arrived, before the pyramids were built. You are living on a used planet. If this bothers you, get over it. We now live in the Anthropocene ― a geological epoch in which Earth’s atmosphere, lithosphere and biosphere are shaped primarily by human forces. Yes, nature is still around ― back-seat ...
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