44
Between Muir (who certainly has had his own detractors, principally stemming
from his own racist blind-spots),
6
Roosevelt, and Leopold, the politics and paradox
of protection had been firmly enshrined in American environmental history
(Fig. 5.2).
7
That there are singular contradictions in those policies, exacerbated by
the negative feedback loops of an ever-increasing population and its consumerist
pressures upon the fast-waning integrity and biodiversity of habitat, is consistent
with that crisis individuals divine in their species, with little or no guidance on how
to “fix it.”
pounds.
6 “Sierra Club reflects on its racist roots and looks towards a new future,” by Susanne Rust, Bettina
Boxall, and Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2020, https://www.latimes.com/california/
story/2020-07-23/sierra-club-denounces-racism-of-john-muir, Accessed July 24, 2020. The story
features at the top the famed photograph of Sierra Club co-founder John Muir “father of the
national parks,” and Theodore Roosevelt together standing atop Glacier Point in Yosemite.
7 See, for example https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/earth-days-modernenvironmental-movement/Accessed June 16, 2020.
Fig. 5.2 Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
5 The Paradox of Protection
Between Muir (who certainly has had his own detractors, principally stemming
from his own racist blind-spots),
6
Roosevelt, and Leopold, the politics and paradox
of protection had been firmly enshrined in American environmental history
(Fig. 5.2).
7
That there are singular contradictions in those policies, exacerbated by
the negative feedback loops of an ever-increasing population and its consumerist
pressures upon the fast-waning integrity and biodiversity of habitat, is consistent
with that crisis individuals divine in their species, with little or no guidance on how
to “fix it.”
pounds.
6 “Sierra Club reflects on its racist roots and looks towards a new future,” by Susanne Rust, Bettina
Boxall, and Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2020, https://www.latimes.com/california/
story/2020-07-23/sierra-club-denounces-racism-of-john-muir, Accessed July 24, 2020. The story
features at the top the famed photograph of Sierra Club co-founder John Muir “father of the
national parks,” and Theodore Roosevelt together standing atop Glacier Point in Yosemite.
7 See, for example https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/earth-days-modernenvironmental-movement/Accessed June 16, 2020.
Fig. 5.2 Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
5 The Paradox of Protection