Whitney: You’ve accused the American Left of supporting these organizations’ inhumane conservation practices.
Dowie: The Left supports the environmental movement, which essentially started out as a conservation initiative. The movement has expanded its concerns to pollution and environmental justice and global warming, but the original impulse for environmentalism was to protect wilderness and wildlife. So the Left has embraced some organizations that have, over the last hundred years, tended to favor wildlife over human life. That’s not a humanist position. I would think the Left would take the side of the powerless indigenous people, 20 million of whom have lost their land and their livelihood in the name of conservation.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
"Conservation"
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In Schiller's Don Carlos, one of the characters says that the lovers of humanity are the persecutors of mankind.
ReplyDeleteEvery book or article that I have read about Ansel Adams speaks of his great patience waiting for the right combination of light and shadow before taking the picture. Now we are told that he was just waiting for somee redskins to get out of the frame? That undocumented statement along with his linking of genocide of the redman with the need to 'conserve' wilderness is outrageous whether one agrees with his thesis or not.
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