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Emma Marris’s new contribution to understanding wildness & wilderness, with a critique of the notion that landscapes can (or should) be returned to a baseline date or condition
Emma Marris’s new book Rambunctious Garden is some of the best stuff I’ve seen on today’s wildness/wilderness issues. She critiques the notion of a “baseline” ideal for a landscape, e.g. pre-Euroamerican for Yellowstone or 1938 for Kennecott, Alaska. Her work … Continue reading
Addictions are our human tendencies to be neurotic taken one step further into the realm of brain disease
From a draft manuscript by our friend Dr. Kimber Rotchford: Addictions are our human tendencies to be neurotic taken one step further into the realm of brain disease. So, attachment, in the Buddhist sense, is psychological and social fixation on … Continue reading
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Scarcity and instability break down hierarchical social structures
from Shultziner, D., T. Stevens, M. Stevens, B. A Stewart, R. J Hannagan, and G. Saltini-Semerari. “The causes and scope of political egalitarianism during the Last Glacial: a multi-disciplinary perspective.” Biology and Philosophy 25 (2010): 319-346. …For the development of … Continue reading
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