Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth

by George Wuerthner (Editor), George Wuerthner (Author), Tom Butler (Editor), Eileen Crist (Editor)

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Is it time to embrace the so-called Anthropocene --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 and even celebrate a post-wild world is arguably the hottest intellectual battle in contemporary conservation.

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Is it time to embrace the so-called Anthropocene --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 and even celebrate a post-wild world is arguably the hottest intellectual battle in contemporary conservation.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 31 Jul 2014
ISBN 10: 1610915585
ISBN 13: 9781610915588

Media Reviews

As an account of underlying concepts, the history of ideas, and neo-green philosophy...this book is outstanding. --Stuart Pimm Biological Conservation
.. .an invaluable read for those who love wild places. --Earth Island Journal
.. .[T]he book contains thought-provoking and damning examples of how the 'Neo-greens' have abandoned the preservation of Nature in favor of human re-engineering of the earth's natural ecosystems and dwindling wilderness. --The Helena Vigilante
We all need to read [Keeping the Wild] and become fully aware of the dangers it describes. We need to familiarise ourselves with all the arguments these writers have so clearly and thoroughly articulated if we are to have any hope of countering the insidious Anthropocene trend before it gets any further entrenched. --GreenSpirit Magazine
In a collection of thoughts from prominent conservationists, editors Wuerthner, Crist and Butler build their case against our move toward the anthropocene, where there is a focus upon human dominance over the environment. --Steamboat Magazine
.. .immensely stimulating --Northern Woodlands
.. .a high quality collection of essays --Environmental Values
I found all the essays well written ... thought provoking. ... I recommend the book to any resource manager who must consider the diverse and often conflicting views of various entities when resolving natural resource issues. --Rangelands
Keeping the Wild isn't a potboiler; it is a pot-stirrer. If the book doesn't succeed in igniting real debate about the direction of the conservation movement, then perhaps it will at least jolt the green establishment out of its uninspiring narcolepsy. --Jackson Hole News and Guide
a seminal body of impressive scholarship throughout and very highly recommended --Midwest Book Review
.. .contribute[s] to an important and unfolding dialog... --Restoration Ecology
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. --Edward O. Wilson University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

Author Bio

George Wuerthner is the ecological projects director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, where he does research and writes about environmental issues. For many years he was a full-time freelance photographer and writer and has published thirty-five books on natural history, conservation history, ecology, and environmental issues.
Eileen Crist teaches at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science and Technology in Society, where she is advisor for the undergraduate program Humanities, Science, and Environment. She is author of Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind and coeditor of Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis.
Tom Butler, a Vermont-based conservation activist and writer, is the board president of the Northeast Wilderness Trust and the former longtime editor of Wild Earth journal. His books include Wildlands Philanthropy, Plundering Appalachia, and ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth.