THE MOVEMENT OF PROTECTING ECOSYSTEMS NEEDS TO CHANGE ITS THINKING IF IT WANTS TO SAVE THEM
A firefighter strolls through the aftermath of a burn. Photo courtesy US Dept. of Defense
EDITOR’S NOTE: In this column, Lance Olsen reviews reasons to accept that we can’t restore ecosystems to what they were, can’t keep them as they are, and that heresy may be our best path to hope.
By Lance Olsen
Throughout many decades, many in the forest and wildlife conservation communities have organized around concerns about the adverse effects of business-as-usual in the logging industry.
For many, grappling with these concerns has also become business-as-usual in the conservation community. Alas, business-as-usual conservation is increasingly unlikely to…
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