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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Green Postmodernism and the Attempted Highjacking of Conservation
Author : Harvey Locke
Published in: Keeping the Wild
Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
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Abstract
CONSERVATIONISTS ARE ACCUSTOMED to having a clear foe—the exploiters who would use up this beautiful world and then move on to use up the next planet. The exploiters are hubristic and interested only in what they can exploit for personal gain. Their core philosophy was captured succinctly by Robert Bidinotto: “Nature indeed provides beautiful settings for the work of man. But unseen and unappreciated the environment is meaningless. It is but an empty frame, in which we and our works are the picture. From that perspective, environmentalism means sacrificing the picture to spare the frame.”1