{"id":54216,"date":"2020-07-17T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54216"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:27:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:27:41","slug":"the-revolution-will-not-be-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54216","title":{"rendered":"The Revolution Will Not Be \u201cGreen\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/unevenearth.org\/2020\/07\/the-revolution-will-not-be-green\/\">The Revolution Will Not Be \u201cGreen\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A truly equitable and sustainable conservation movement must abandon both green capitalism and the idea of pristine nature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unevenearth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/wade-lambert-aTphQGyZoI8-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4599\"\/><figcaption>Photo by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@wade_lambert?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Wade Lambert<\/a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our planet is dying, and conservation as we know it isn\u2019t helping. In fact, it\u2019s making things worse. Long imagined as a bulwark against ecological destruction, players in the mainstream conservation movement\u2014think big NGOs like The Nature Conservancy and their corporate partners\u2014have actually been complicit in that destruction by propping up a fundamentally unsustainable capitalist system and the nature-culture dichotomy it\u2019s built upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Bram B\u00fcscher and Robert Fletcher, sociology professors at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, conservation has long been due for a wholesale update\u2014and today, it\u2019s getting not just one but two: \u201cnew conservation\u201d and \u201cneoprotectionism.\u201d But in their tightly-argued book,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/3149-the-conservation-revolution\">The Conservation Revolution<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(Verso, February 2020) B\u00fcscher and Fletcher make the case that both of these emerging, radical movements contain \u201cuntenable contradictions\u201d and that neither can save the planet or humanity from catastrophe. In their place, they propose a new conservation framework of their own, one that complements the variety of ongoing \u201chope movements\u201d imagining ecologically-sound and democratic alternatives to capitalism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the course of just over 200 pages, B\u00fcscher and Fletcher build up to this modest proposal swiftly yet methodically, combining history and theory to contextualize and, ultimately, critique their colleagues in the so-called \u201cAnthropocene conservation debate\u201d in a way that is both rigorous and accessible. While their own \u201cconvivial conservation\u201d framework, by their own admission, needs further development, it is nonetheless an important addition to revolutionary thought in political ecology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revolution Will Not Be \u201cGreen\u201d A truly equitable and sustainable conservation movement must abandon both green capitalism and the idea of pristine nature Our planet is dying, and conservation as we know it isn\u2019t helping. In fact, it\u2019s making things worse. 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