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Response to Inclusive Conservation of Tallis and Lubchenco

On November 25, 2014 By

Heather Tallis and Jane Lubchenco published a commentary  titled “A Call for Inclusive Conservation” in the November 2014 issue of Nature.  The essay sought to broker a truce or compromise between two philosophical positions in the conservation movement today that can be characterized as “new conservation” which promotes human utility as the primary goal of […]

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Why buffalo and why not the CUT deal? Against utilitarianism

On April 21, 2008 By

Why buffalo and why not the CUT deal? Against utilitarianism. By Jim Macdonald, New West Unfiltered

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey