Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
ISBN-13:
9780393315110
ISBN-10:
0393315118
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
William Cronon
Publication date:
1996
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
560 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780393315110
ISBN-10:
0393315118
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
William Cronon
Publication date:
1996
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
560 pages
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Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (ISBN-13: 9780393315110 and ISBN-10: 0393315118), written by authors
William Cronon, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1996.
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A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.
In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and environmentalists over spotted owls and other objects of species preservation.The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution. People, Cronon argues, are inextricably tied to nature, whether they live in cities or countryside. Rather than attempt to exclude humans, environmental advocates should help us learn to live in some sustainable relationship with nature. It is our home. Photographs
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