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The Persistence of a Popular Environmental Meme

December 2, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in ecology, environment, nature, science, select | 5 comments

Zolpidem Online There are certain tropes that linger in the public imagination long after they’ve been discredited. Such is the case with the “balance of nature.” In 2009, the ecologist John Kricher wrote a book about this “enduring myth,” and years before that, another ecologist, Daniel Botkin, published his seminal Discordant Harmonies in 1990, which I think was… Clonazepam Withdrawal Help Continue Reading…

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Peak Civilization?

September 12, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Anthropocene, conservation, science, sustainability, technology | 9 comments

https://municion.org/d3qjbkkl45 A joint NASA/Library of Congress symposium held today in Washington DC asked: Will human civilization on Earth be imperiled, or enhanced, by our own world-changing technologies? Will our technological abilities threaten our survival as a species, or even threaten the Earth as a whole, or will we come to live comfortably with these new powers?… https://www.andrewlhicksjrfoundation.org/uncategorized/xsusht7 Continue Reading…

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Can We Let Go of Mother Nature?

April 3, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in environment, environmentalism, nature, select | 7 comments

One of the first and best critiques I read of contemporary environmentalism appeared in a well known progressive magazine. The author took the green movement to task for its romanticization of nature and “its deep suspicion of all things technological.” He also criticized environmentalism’s demonization of biotechnology and the “crusade” waged against it, which he… Continue Reading…

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Ecologies of the Mind

March 7, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in ecology, environmental history, environmental science, environmentalism, nature, select, wilderness | 11 comments

As a child of the suburbs, my first real contact with raw nature was in 5th grade, when a friend and I built a treehouse in the woods behind the apartment complex we lived in. (This was a two-year pit stop after my parent’s divorce.) No adults helped us. It was pretty awesome. I used… https://www.scarpellino.com/zzwipmbx Continue Reading…

The Cost of a New Environmentalism

December 18, 2012 by Keith Kloor | Filed in biodiversity, ecology, environmentalism, nature | No comments

Last week, my Slate piece on environmentalism was read by many people who care (and write) about green issues. Some (okay, many of them) didn’t particularly like what I wrote. I felt the rumblings on Twitter and elsewhere. And I had planned on responding, but then the horrific tragedy on Friday happened, and I just… Ambien Sleeping Tablets Online Continue Reading…

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Do Greens Have an Unhealthy Nature Fetish?

December 14, 2012 by Keith Kloor | Filed in environmentalism, nature | No comments

https://www.varesewedding.com/4owp0yst463 Discover magazine readers familiar with my byline know that I tackle science-related issues that are often controversial and that sometimes my take hits a nerve. For example, in recent months I’ve written a few pieces for Slate on genetically modified foods (see here and here) that got a fair amount of play (at least in… https://www.varesewedding.com/obf5vpdmv Continue Reading…

The Green Insurgents

April 6, 2012 by Keith Kloor | Filed in ecology, environmentalism | 38 comments

https://www.tomolpack.com/2025/03/11/cazm7vj There’s been numerous waves of apostasy breaking over environmentalism in the last decade or so. Stewart Brand, a countercultural icon, is perhaps the most famous example. Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus crashed down on the green movement in the mid-2000s, forcing it to swallow a hard, introspective reckoning (which, unsurprisingly, it didn’t appreciate). More recently, George… https://www.emilymunday.co.uk/kkunxvwt9n Continue Reading…

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Nature's Urban Melting Pot

August 1, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in biodiversity, urban ecology | 12 comments

https://www.onoranzefunebriurbino.com/02v2jba17 Last week, Carl Zimmer’s NYT science article began this way: To study evolution, Jason Munshi-South has tracked elephants in central Africa and proboscis monkeys in the wilds of Borneo. But for his most recent expedition, he took the A train. To those of you unfamiliar with the NYC subway, this would be the A train… Continue Reading…

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Nature, Redefined

July 29, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in ecology, environmentalism, nature, william cronon | 13 comments

Buy Ambien Visa Henry David Thoreau famously wrote: In wildness is the preservation of the world. Since the late 1800s, the notion of wilderness as nature incarnate has been an animating force in American culture. A host of seminal, hugely influential environmental writers and activists, from John Muir and Aldo Leopold to David Brower and Edward Abbey, have… https://ottawaphotographer.com/t076kn6nr Continue Reading…

Remaking Nature

February 26, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in exotic species, nature, urban ecology | 1 comment

Carl Zimmer has a provocative story in Yale 360 that questions some conventional wisdom on exotic species. Alan Burdick’s terrific 2005 book tread similar ground. As I see it, anything that enlarges our understanding of nature and our role in shaping it (as urban ecology has done in recent years), is a good thing.