Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Rise of the Neo-greens....Pages 3-9
The Conceptual Assassination of Wilderness....Pages 10-15
Ptolemaic Environmentalism....Pages 16-30
With Friends Like These, Wilderness and Biodiversity Do Not Need Enemies....Pages 31-44
What’s So New about the “New Conservation”?....Pages 45-54
Conservation in No-Man’s-Land....Pages 55-65
The “New Conservation”....Pages 66-80
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
The Fable of Managed Earth....Pages 85-108
Conservation in the Anthropocene....Pages 109-113
The Myth of the Humanized Pre-Columbian Landscape....Pages 114-125
The Future of Conservation: An Australian Perspective....Pages 126-136
Expanding Parks, Reducing Human Numbers, and Preserving All the Wild Nature We Can: A Superior Alternative to Embracing the Anthropocene Era....Pages 137-145
Green Postmodernism and the Attempted Highjacking of Conservation....Pages 146-161
Why the Working Landscape Isn’t Working....Pages 162-173
Valuing Naturalness in the “Anthropocene”: Now More than Ever....Pages 174-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Wild World....Pages 183-187
Living Beauty....Pages 188-196
Wilderness: What and Why?....Pages 197-204
Resistance....Pages 205-210
An Open Letter to Major John Wesley Powell....Pages 211-214
Back Matter....Pages 217-271