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Jun. 11th, 2018 12:46 am
Jun. 11th, 2018
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spatheandspadix:
Academic hills I will die on:
-Land-use history didn’t begin with European colonization and if, like me, your research focuses on post-settlement land use it’s important to acknowledge that fact.
-The great American wilderness is a grossly inaccurate colonialist fantasy.
-Human influence, specifically that of indigenous people, is all over the ecology of what is currently called America.
-Human interaction with other organisms is not inherently negative because it’s “unnatural.” We’re all family whether we want to admit it or not.
-Human/Nature dualism is awful and wrong.
-Environmentalism that focuses on “humans are bad” and verges on some Catholic-style “fallen man” ideology is also awful.
-Environmentalism that uses this mentality to reproduce colonialism by supposedly protecting nature from indigenous land management needs to stop.
spatheandspadix:
Academic hills I will die on:
-Land-use history didn’t begin with European colonization and if, like me, your research focuses on post-settlement land use it’s important to acknowledge that fact.
-The great American wilderness is a grossly inaccurate colonialist fantasy.
-Human influence, specifically that of indigenous people, is all over the ecology of what is currently called America.
-Human interaction with other organisms is not inherently negative because it’s “unnatural.” We’re all family whether we want to admit it or not.
-Human/Nature dualism is awful and wrong.
-Environmentalism that focuses on “humans are bad” and verges on some Catholic-style “fallen man” ideology is also awful.
-Environmentalism that uses this mentality to reproduce colonialism by supposedly protecting nature from indigenous land management needs to stop.