George Wuerthner

Contains a lot of essays refuting the claims of Nordhaus and Shellenberger that because there are no lands that have not at least been minutely effected by man there is no more wilderness and therefore we should give up on protecting for wilderness. Michael Soule does the best job of painting the current status of conservation (versus environmentalism) and how the big conservation NGO's have mostly gone over to the land as resource for people and corporations.

Makes me glad to be the puny David at Western Watersheds Project and Wild Utah Project still fighting the Goliaths. Torrey House needs some more narratives that express the intrinsic value of the natural world. Values that are intrinsic are hard to promote compared to values that benefit humanity. Story can do it.… (mere)