Wilson in Africa — my book review of Ed Wilsons wonderful new - TopicsExpress



          

Wilson in Africa — my book review of Ed Wilsons wonderful new book about Gorongosa in Mozambique A Window on Eternity is in this weeks Nature. A snippet: Wilson damns “the corporate priesthood” that views “restructuring ... Earth to accommodate vast numbers of people” as progress. There may be those to whom species do not matter, to whom extinction is an abstraction. To Wilson, species are our “phylogenetic kind” and individual species matter to him. He indicts those for whom Anthropocene is a term that carries the political baggage of acquiescence to human domination of landscapes. The world cannot dwindle into a vast garden, he urges. To him, wildlands are “our birthplace”; a further “slide into extinction will turn the Anthropocene into the Eremocene, the Age of Loneliness”.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 21:34:00 +0000

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