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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #104A: Human-Centered |
| The
Land Desk -- focusing on Western public lands, water, resource
exploitation, etc (non-profit educational organization)
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| When
the Killing's Done by T. C. Boyle
(NY Times review by Barbara Kingsolver of 2011 fiction book about
human view of problem animals vs. an ecosystem based respect for nature
view) |
|
Chain
of Being (from Dictionary of the History of Ideas) |
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"Overcoming
Ideology," by Ron Arnold (essay expressing "ideas that
evolved...into wise use movement") |
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"Two
Cheers for the 1872 Mining Law" by Richard Gordon and Peter VanDoren
(CATO institute link to this 1998 paper) |
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Have
Dominion Over All These, by Rev. J. Michael Beers (from Religion &
Liberty website) |
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Trashing
the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America |
|
The
Evolution of Anthropocentrism (article by Reeve Basom) |
| Environmentalism
or Individualism? by Robert James Bidinotti |
| Environmentalism
as Religion (text of 2003 speech by Michael Crichton) |
| Property
Rights Movement or Sagebrush Rebellion Revisited |
| Property
Rights Foundation of America |
| Climate
Change: World on Fire --Wildfires are getting more frequent and more
devastating (from The Economist August 24
2024) |
| New
research uncovers staggering figures on temperature disparities in urban
areas by Stephen Proctor (from The Cool Down July 26 2024) |
| Fewer
wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of
Mexico’s forests? by Linda Farthling (from The Guardian May 1 2024) |
| Extraction
of raw materials to rise by 60% by 2060, says UN report by Arthur Nelson
(from The Guardian, Jan 31 2024)
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| The
American Buffalo film by Ken Burns
"a most dramatic demonstration of our ability to destroy the
natural world" (review from Better Angels Society January
2024) |
|
Brazil--Unsustainable
(report from The Economist June 17 2023) |
| South
Asia's Filthy Air (Feb 18 2023 report from The Economist)
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| Ocean
heat content hits record high, a sign of global warming by Andrew Freedman
(post on Axios Jan 11 2023)
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| The
world is burning more coal than ever before, new report shows by Ivana
Kottasova (from CNN Dec 16 2023) |
| Mounting
Scientific Evidence Rekindles Fracking Health Concerns by Jon Hurdle
(from Mother Jones Nov 28 2022)
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| How Safe are U.S. Rivers 50 Years After the Clean Water Act?
by Carl Shane (from Scientific American: October 18 2022) |
| "Alarm Bells as Satellites Reveal a Third of Pakistan Underwater" by Lizzie Davies (posted on
Mother Jones September 2 2022) |
| The world has never seen a heat wave quite like China's 70-day streak by Andrew Freedman (post on
Axios August 22 2022) |
| An
Oil Train Is Set To Destroy Pristine Utah Mountains
by Stephanie Mencimer (article from Mother Jones May 2
2022) |
| “The
End of the Night Sky” (report on light pollution from satellites The
Economist November 27 2021) |
| Forests
and Climate Change (report from The Economist November 6 2021)
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| Air
Pollution in India (report from The Economist November 6 2021) |
| "Agriculture:
Farming's New Frontiers"
(report from The Economist August 28 2021) |
| "The
American West is Drying Up: Low and Dry" (report from The
Economist August 21 2021 |
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“Deaths
surge in U.S. and Canada from worst heatwave on record” by Moira
Warburton (news item from Reuters June 30 2021) |
|
Climate
change clearly visible as NOAA prepares to release new 'normals' by Monica Garrett, (report from CNN
Meteorologist April 21 2021) |
| "22
Disasters, 262 Dead, $95B in Damages: 2020 Set Records for US Climate
Mayhem"
by Oliver Milman (report in Mother Jones January 2021)
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| "Managing
Forests Crucial As Climate Gets Hotter" (interview
with western forest management expert Sept 16 2020) |
| “The
Amazon: Of Chainsaws and Supply Chains” (report from The
Economist June 13 2020) |
| “The
Mekong: Torrent to Trickle”
(article from The Economist May 16 2020 |
| "Bolsonaro
declares 'the Amazon is ours' and calls deforestation data 'lies'" By
Dom Puillips (article
from The Guardian July 19 2019)
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| India
is running out of water, fast (report posted on Aljazeera June
20 2019) |
| The
Environment in India --Poison all around
(report from The Economist Dec 8 2018) |
|
Rising
seas: 'Florida is about to be wiped off the map' by Elizabeth Rush
(article in The
Guardian Jun 26 2018) |
| How
the Growth of Cities Changes Farming (from The Economist Feb 17
2018)
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| "Harvey,
Irma, Maria: This is the hurricane season scientists expected … and
feared" by Eric Holthaus
(Sep 20, 2017) |
| Deforestation
in Indonesia (report from The Economist November 26 2016) |
|
The
Anthropocene -- Dawn of a New Epoch? (report from The Economist September
3 2016) |
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|
Flood
Control: Disgorging (report from The Economist July 30 2016)
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| "Requiem
for a River"
(lengthy essay about development on the Mekong River from The
Economist Feb 13 2016)
|
| "Armed
Group Vows to Hold Federal Wildlife Office in Oregon ‘for Years’"
(Jan 2016 New
York Times story) |
| “How
property rights in outer space may lead to a scramble to exploit the
moon’s resources” by
Dominic Basulto
(Nov 2015 Washington Post article) |
| "A
Thirsty, Violent World" by Michael Specter
(article about coming struggles over water in The New Yorker
Feb 24 2015) |
| "Ranchers
Vs. Bison Huggers" (report on "The Battle for
Yellowstone" from The Economist Jan 3 2015) |
|
"Out-of-state
groups ride in to stand with Nevada rancher in battle with feds over
grazing rights" (Apr 11 2014 news report from Fox News) |
|
"Exporting
the Colorado River to China Through Hay" by Ben Jervey (Jan 23
2014 report from National Geographic) |
| Rachel
Was Wrong website (attacks the legacy of Rachel Carson's Silent
Spring and the environmental movement) |
| A
Wolf in the Garden: The Land Rights Movement and New Environmental Debate, by Phillip Brick and McGreggor
Cawley (read excerpts of this 1996 book at Google Books) |
| The
Wise Use Agenda (as identified by an environmental organization) |
| What's
Old & What's New About the Wise Use Movement |
| The
Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, by Lynn White |
| The
Orthodox Church and the Environmental Movement, by E. Theokritoff |
| Environmental
Theology: A Judeo-Christian Defense |
| Religion's
Anthropocentric Conceit, by Bill Cooke |
| Ten
Thousand Years of Crop Improvement: From Crop Domestication to Molecular
Agriculture (2001 UCTV program) |
| "Geoengineering
Global Cooling: 'Insane, Utterly Mad and Delusional'" by Jon Queally (Jan
16 2014 article posted on Common Dreams website) |
| "Geoengineering
and Climate Change: Stopping a Scorcher" (review of two books
from The Economist Nov 23 2013) |
| "Geoengineering: Testing the Waters" by Naomi Klein
(from October 27 2012 The New York Times) |
| "And
Man Made Life" (article in The Economist May 22
2010) |
| "The
New Age of Extinction," by Bryan Walsh (April 13, 2009
Time article) |
| "Meteorology:
Taming the Sky" by Jane Qiu and Daniel Cressey (news report about
weather modification in Nature June 19 2008) |
| "The
Clean Energy Scam," by Michael Grunwald (4/7/08 Time
article about why ethanol isn't eco-friendly) |
| "Growing
Calls for Moratorium on Climate Geoengineering" by Stephen Leahy
(Oct 26 2010 news item) |
| "Recruiting
Plankton to Fight Global Warming" by Matt Richtel (4/30/07 NY
Times article) |
| "Geoegineering,"
by Bryan Walsh (article about a great new idea in Time March 24
2008) |
| Alliance
for America (umbrella group, Wise Use Movement) |
| The
Western War Against Barbed Wire, by Bob Diddlebock (September 10, 2007
Time article) |
| What
is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? by Vaclav Klaus |
| Mountain
States Legal Foundation |
| Warriors
for the West, by William Perry Pendley (2006 book by
president of Mountain States Legal Foundation) |
| Stewards
of the Range |
| Man's
Responsibility for Nature,
by John Passmore (online encyclopedia article about Passmore and this
book) |
|
Anthropocentrism
and Deep Ecology, by William Grey ("my aim is not
to bury anthropocentrism but to defend it")_ |
| Anthropocentrism,
by John Seed (deep ecology perspective on) |
| Nature
Wars by Jim Sterba (Jan 2013 Washington Post book review of
book about conflicts associated with wildlife in urban areas) |
| The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
(Feb 2011 NY Times book review of book about America's
"greatest environmental disaster") |
| The
Real Anthropocentrism (blogger takes on the deep ecologists) |
| Non-Anthropocentrism
in a Thoroughly Anthropocentrized World (article by Anthony Weston) |
| Anthropocentrism
(essay by Penelope Smith -- an animal rights perspective) |
| video
of John Prine with lyric contextual relevant images performing his 1972
song "Paradise" about coal mining in Mulhenberg County Kentucky |
| quotes
related to private property |
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