Posts Under ‘indigenous cultures’ Category

Sacrificing Cultures on the Climate Change Altar

July 25, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, deforestation, environmentalism, indigenous cultures | 1 comment

This story by Elisabeth Rosenthal in Saturday’s New York Times unintentionally highlights an issue that receives scant attention in the media. Which is the bigger, more immediate problem: land use (such as deforestation) or climate change? If you want to make things even more complicated, throw in natural climatic events, such as drought. Rosenthal tries…Continue Reading…

The Clash of Two Cultures

June 8, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in conservation, environmental history, indigenous cultures | No comments

I’m just catching up with this essay by Mark Dowie. Money quote: The perceived arrogance of “big conservation” is a confounding factor; so too is the understandable tendency of some indigenous people to conflate conservation with imperialism. The results of this century-old conflict are thousands of protected areas that cannot be managed and an intractable…Continue Reading…