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    The Environmental Humanities [A Cele ntroduction Robert S. Emmett and David =. Nye anbeidge Masseuse {onan and ‘Migs sere. No pt this ook may erode any fr by ‘Sone and teva thou ermine ting tm the psc: Tis book wa tin ITC Sloe Si yen Jacki ned ad bound nthe ‘ames Emmet Robt, 178 sthor [Nye Das, 196: anho Tile The eeonmentl humanities stil inom ee spon: Cambridge NA: ME re, 2071 Ins biogapiet Monies LCC 201700882 979726004764 hacer, pepe ISHN 7en252534208 gk pape Sj LST Entomol cen [Son nd hs mans. | ‘Gasca: LEC GE £9 2017 | DDE-REA7-424 LC cod aatale at ‘pen oc oo 201700882 woarassaar Contents ‘Aetrowtedgmects 1 The Emergence of the evronmental Humes 1 2 Mace, Ecotourism and the New Wilds 23, 3 Energy, Consumption, and Sustlnable ies 47 4 Promises and Danger of Sclence 71 5 The anthropocene's Dark Visions 93 | Putting the Brakes On: Akemative Practices 117 7 Unseting the Human 139 8 Condusons 163 Note 177 Biblogrpty 201 Index 217 Fee ut 11 The Emergence of the Environmental Humar Since the beginning of the events century 2 mew academe fd as merge: the environmental humanities. This iterdeplinary endeavor developed mtancously ia many prs ofthe wold lt achieved ‘conscious international entity and a name ster decade of test by Individuals and ater the formation of academic asvcations Inti ‘n environmental sues. This book Is not an intl Mistory ofthis ‘moverentScvese rigs: Rthe introduces thei to anyone whose Interests it ntesecs. We explin Key concepts, cents and cate research foe. Along the way we alo preset some exemplary projets, We have tried wo avoid patissnip, We want readers to acute 8 knowledge ‘f posse approaches andan arenes of debates within the Fd, We are not seeking zonvers oa particular method o ideology ‘Thats we hare sme trong eld potions wih ost people wrk Ing in the environmental humanities. On the bass of the scenic er ence, we ttn lob warming akg plas, and do mat hin tis ‘open question ato whether human ings have contabuted tot a \Webolieve tat pees extinction i occuring at an laminae, and we reject the mation that harmnity Aa speci place in ection that eit izes the elmination of other forms of We believe that eurent con sumption ofthe eas sources snot utainable, The sea as overs, the irs maezsingly pola he ocens contin wat Resting lands of lost ond fieamount of gubage proce by human consumption gros yearby year We think tht Sle exe at dentying and expsining such problems, but they alone cant seve them. Sltions wl requie| pola ander expetie a el. One can bl a elf sulflent sole house foresampl, bu that does not mean the average consumer wl Duy ‘ne. One can design an ene fficent cy, bu convincing the ple to 2 “commit soe tbl ita then to venti nota scenic probes “bute nterccpinsry oe. Fox example, McKiny& Company developed pla for an exemplary ‘sciogcal commenty of Sut be ut on arty tang neat Sangha “ent ae sted for competion fa tne forthe works exposition ile here in 2010, Aeron twas expec to ow Into a ly oa on i te decades fot, nating was bull. The local farmers were eve consulted, ar were scientist staying rare bd nthe are inca lhe planing proces, which was very mic top-down. The pains Invaved were moved afte ad conictons. Asin many such projet, the delgn imposed ad lth loc! ina, a ras io the ease wid the ‘wlrntended ecovlage of Moangbaiy i aorthestes Chia. Hs fae Isa coutonary tle agaist pursing technol es without adequate Insight ino the historical and cultura contest of » proposed solion A few bck Houses wer built Huang, but they dd not se the mate false, an they were poly designed oe local Farmer, who sid the yar were the wrong shape and iz oe dee need, May eet 10 ‘move into the nee houses, whose cost overs aed ries above what {hey ould aor A journal who stad Ue debacle wrote "Without tensive consultation with loc pope 1 ehalenge fr foreign plan ners even with the Best intentions, to understand wh equ 0 trnapant fame who re up plowing ks toa ty dele." ‘lal, the humic ve ruc ole ply in understanding and ln sling environmental probes such 35 designing new communities nd revitalengspng eis. However, i tls book we do not clan that sealed know howto solve the many fundamental challenges osc. ‘Wesel ete, to show how humans ne inyrovng ow undentanding ofthe potiems and contbuting othe solcon. That brings so fiat strongly eld poston actors the environmental humans that human {ns must of constructive cede wl es. Fotunatly this ow seem 0 Be widely ld by allen Surveys show that mllenn high roy and actively seek solons. "his ook survey key concept, vent Usons, and central debates + apy evolving fel Is an ntodicton, at 3 catalog moves from eal tore to ore recent one, a in the process sows that Ie Impose to separate enioneental anal en dscusions of ‘The Emergence othe Eaveomenaltumanes a Indusszaion and western imperial, which togeher aceleraed ‘source extraction, consumption, pollution, population growth, species ‘of he environmental humanities wil demonstate 12, ‘hat many tke ‘ng contributions have come from scholars concemed wth genes, 28; ana quer theory. Our oa 5 nt to ajuskate every dette o champion fone theory ove another so much ae It ntadace a neh aay oes In sch away that the wader can gina preliminary gasp ofthe envron- ‘mental humanities and wing the bibllogzphy, decide what to ed net Wwe think concept sineteni confusing or theory fed, we wl sy ‘have eased on wha Seem the mos intriguing and potently peoductive porches, Emergence ofthe Environmental Humanities ‘One can trace the origins of he eavronmental humanities bck mote than 2 cary, butte eld rginsted mos immesiaely thug the conta. departments of iterate, philosophy, history, geogaphy gender states, ‘and anthropology An insovlive cater of Austen rears adopted the mame “ecological manites” inthe late 1990. Ty were working at the ntsection of history, naigenous stdles, antheepolgy,pilss- hy pita! theory and nonfiction wing, Smtanouly, the Mas ‘sts Insite of Technology, the MacAnhr Workshop on Humanistic ‘Stes of the Environment (191-1995) sought fo transeen the common aly of ature velar by locating ecologel problem inthe behavior sid soil scencs with manites ad encouraged eseach 205 dscipines began to emerge dung te 19805 ‘Such lots but on 3 cute of seminal works. In the United States, ey Dad Thoreau’ ae (1858) ieped ater weer inelding Jb Mul Jane Addams, Ako Leopold, taka Abbey, Kahle D. Moore, an George Pehins Marsh's Man and Sue (1854) uence scence wees In the United States rom Rachel Cation to Bl Mekibes an ofered 30 ‘ly mode! of eviranmental Nistor. Marsha represeed 2 Earpean Seite and techni tata of studying environment and Society, ‘often nbeed historical gost. was actively deployed pat of Bt Ish and French colonies ent aalogy tie The Fate of Nate reflects thisaspet of an intellectual genealogy for envionment human thes To its only asamp of hie potent ea fram ts cllection: Alera ‘ee von Humboldt an Aim Bonplane dvocay in Ey 00 he Gagan of Plants (1807 for an integrated planetary study of mate; Willa San dey Jvonst wing on the question of coat supp consumption, and the Ivtish Empire (1865), and Vian Veradsty’s concept of the Bospere (0926) Tees aie Tine om suc thinks the development ofthe ‘envionment henanites,which onside te environment and human iy tobe inetealy commer snd se fo preserve an unproductive hierarchy among forms of knowledge. inperaive to absndon ano siting wadtons inorder ogra these neonnections. “The eevonmentl ani id not ply eae fom cae Wes am thinkers, however, nfdamenal ways, te kd hak been shaped by postcolonial and feminist studies and by schol working ols of Ehvope andthe United States, These schol ckiqued the ited focus of eter envitonmenta histor andthe erry enon of “matte wt ing” Thy challenged the persistent atopocentc and 3 times imp ta) sof dominant cial and polite theves. They pointed ou that the very ides of humans standing outside of and conling nature was tasedon conception of the nal world hat spas deine There wat often an impiilyeacaasd conception ofthe natal woe that depended on ested, Nistor Anup that was conceived 3s hit, male and Baropean. Appuenly neutral ere sich a re and ature” though they ll spec in pole decusions of eat change, ten have mashed une sca relatos and exploitation of sours. Ina major shit of perpectve, a new ange of concept emerged that pre- ‘vie ramewok for environmental humans, suchas ecracsm, nv ronment sic, itarccure,” de ensronmenaism ofthe poor an the psthuman “he environmental mani ts become 2 global intellect move ment that conceives the reaonshipbxtween scene and tchnlal Gdcipins andthe humanities, which re essential vo understanding and reoiving dilemmas that hve Ben cated by indus soc. By 2010, Scholars in Austalla, Norn Ameri, and Wiser Earope had begun “The magene of th Femmes Hans 5 ‘enbroce the ter ‘eneronmental humanities and taday shots with sir interes canbe found on every continent Ye al a centry 390 seve flelds that have contbuted 16 the enviromental humane otbly Mestre, cult geoBphy,antvopoloy. and story lady begun oie the gps between themsalves ad sence. ‘The envionment humanities provide histo perspectives on the ‘tural and sci sence, poling to how thet gens inal goal end ‘oceasona aires have been affected by pote! Meoogies and econonic Interests. The envonmental humanities ao si othe interpretation of ceniic results and tecnica! innovations, Even mutciiplinay ct ene commissions sometimes produce knowedge that Ie orerookes of underused. For example, te bistrian Ton Gifts has decribed How 3 Royal Commission in Austala compiled thousands of ageton the dams tng elects of pastoral and overtoking onthe coainent more than hued years ago. Astalions in power have long hd the Knowledge of ecological nis Gifts ces this a¢ pie reson we ne ecologic humanities, conchdng: “Scents cten argue for he need to overome cetics of knowledge but rly as why we do notactupon what aes) now, Mos of the consvaints working guns envionment! change ae ular we have to know ourselves 35 wel 5 the Cunuy.* Moveorr, ‘hose whe dsover o invent often prove poor probit wen seeking to explain how thir dscoveris wl be wed oe sued The eect and manages who inven the Interne, which now sey acknowledged 51 planetary cata fore, hardly raped ts feseaching pont, The American Telegraph and Telephone Company tuned down a chance 12 purchase the nascent technology Nori his an oie example ofthe ina to forest the aut ses of an invention? ‘Tete litle eon to eleve tat setts who improve cloning tech- riqus, design solr radiation management systems, oe manipulate DNA to crete new form of if ae ale to se all the posible ets oftheir ork, hee The environmental humanities on aes ethical probes {hate ase as ning becomes mote widespread of governments 3nd vate inviduas decide whether o pray slur it the upper atmo- sphere to combat a enate emerges” or the cous iat questions ofthe ownership of DNA, or a5 international agencies weet with pro tems of gal popenty igs. The envionment humanities are Cay tng the ogi an consequences social practices ht faved whe , chapter 4 goverment or community wants to change energy consumption of snare se They ae enti the np naratve about energy 308 ‘aural sources that shape public opinion and suagestng mew maaives ‘that en help peop to understand ad eniace new practices” Tey have begun tose the values ended to il an environmentally responsible Society ith habits fella tznshp, Carolyn Merchant hes argue that's prineship thie would bing humans sd nor-human natu no ‘dymamaly balanced woe nel qa latonship” Such anew thie equiestnew narative. Tis ew sory “would not acept he Kea of a (aing te eat or eer kenga ein tot dowesteton and contol by human beings nse, each early place would be a home or community, to be stared th other living and fnonvig things” Tasch fon, sls and wnters re resin down ident aren betwen the omanites nd the selences, even a hese ‘eons are being breached the ag soi. ec of wide range, the i of environmental humanities s feat te pin doen, and thas dierent profiles depending onthe sche fly regis atthe nstatons where has eng. One uivesy may havea itong environmental history group i alg with poups spe cht Inpostcolona studles and aetwopoogy 1 fcty night et touralfocused on eclogalimperiaism. Anther university may be weak In these areas but foster a productive aaiogue etcen scholars in eoeit ‘iam, envigonmental etic, and gee toes. Tir publications might fer only ocsionlly to coogi operon but Bald 3 ebust dae toque onthe dimensions of he human, fecuning 08 anscorporey, vital mater and wansgender ties. With such dflerences between een rou, the fleld might appear incoherent, btw more ACCrAE fo sy that evolving apy. “Ten eats fom now, ie envkonmentl humanities wil ey be pret tn mos univers, The prediction stsedon theft hat the stations sah auch programs oe among the word elite nthe Une tates the ist Incl Sanford University, he University of Califor at Los Angels Princeton Univers, the Univesity of Pennayvania, andthe University of ‘Wiseonsin But the Umea ats not nese ead potent comer also have emerged at leding universities in ital, Sweden, Ge many, Austral, and China, Fnac suppost that once was episode a faphasard has becke tore syatematic. The environmental humanities ‘The Energon of themiron Manas , sre now aticlatngconcens evant to medic anima igh, neo ology ce and gener sts, urban panning, climate scene, and dtl technology. More general, humans with nweonmenal concen ae proving adept st communicating wit 2 broad public evoking 2 sense of wonder a the elence and compleny of ecolngeal ystems, empathy for endangered specs of habia, and undestanding of the went need tnvate Knowldg-tven action fn envionmertal ute sch 9 eat ‘exming, habit lo eater plato apd ood secu. ‘The open-minded, costae approach ofthe environmental ur ties can metivate eentive caoperation betwen the humanities and the ‘eine nd cn si the interpretation of centers. Tey share {ble inthe power of rt and mani o ark ovations relevant tw othe dciplines nd pactcl els Arsand dig advocates have ro- posed that the acronym STEM be expanded to STEAM 0 ecognze how the ‘ut contebue to Invertvenes in since, technology, enginering, and mathematics" Tamidacpinary projets inthe eavcomental humanities have Involved storytelling, semistructured intrews, and vis enog raphy to develop wsble mess for dieting ergy development = cull pacts, land use, and water management. For example state ‘sgences and puble museums have employed itera, wees, photog apes and atts o communicate the complex elsonships of soles and thir envionment. These efforts alo rat and ualning. natives in the environmental harnaniies re ft inspied by arts, makes, Playwrights, ne pest geal medi “he global environmental es demands new ways of thinking and new communities that produce environmental sitions a frm of vie owe. The ris cannotbe addres solely by finding eehnologia solutions to prticulc problems that ae delvere "downseam” toa pop lation of sive consumes, The cs a een caused by human bey tov and by inetttons that extenalize envionment costs aa cordon off regimes of olent extraction and waste from ve. Rlying for solutions on ‘the scetic and engineering specialists who seed thet very isto fi vested interest seems a maladaptive sponse. For cltaral and polt- ‘al reasons, even the bet cence an the bes ehinoloies—for example, thse wed to mitigate climate change—are often not adopted. The pln ‘tay cls can best be adres through a itevdsciplinary approach to environmental change that includes the huranities, the as and the siencen" Libby tobi recorded sriking remark by am A ‘fie manager for 1 costal zone: “We do not manage the environment, ‘only the human teaviors hat aft structed procesee“ Haman being are not marly ober they ae an active pe of mate. Ye the ale doesnot ncestally undeatand or elev 3 seen Ring, such 1 otal worming. The humasiae uciptnes can help to expiin ach Findings and discover way to addres the public more elfectivey. Mar ‘lobal nancial and devclopment agencies now eccognize that address ‘mote lance han convertonal daa such ¥ GDP oF COs emisons They demand brosd thnking.lsinwork aos the deiptine, ad wedge that afte, oremotonally potent sm oder tobe eft ot expe of Some Central Concepts ‘Te eal and ofthe envionment humane emerged Ia response 02 mulngronge css of ecology economy, pois, and epistemology inapt2ft of manogepi,resn” spec es of our and on ferences At that tine thee yas virally no awareness feb wiring, tut a goed deal fdacision of ak a rm potion, the popubtion explosion, the rp consumption ofthe ents resources andthe port lay even gael” cee war could tc up 30 much dst nthe stn spe tat the eath would endures “nic wnt” hat could wife Ot ‘most of humanity, Oneat the most widely cussed topics was that "the ‘imits to yee. Ths iil suige of ners receded somewhat he 1980, but histor an erature nd cested subse in envionment sory and ecocr lm, wth sma developments nother departs. ‘These pate intatives yan to colesce by the 1990s. The growing Ist ‘of enveonmentlcallenges—scid an, spcis extinction, genetic eng ering, ltl waring—fonher stilt new generation of clr. ‘As insttlon: gue, methedologia sophistication and profesional crebtysengibened and scholars ben to ask penetrating qualeative ‘gestions about the hunan-enironment neki. Membership (nd ss member) in ky organizations fr ensronmentlHstoy, «coats, Phlosophy, anthropology, grog feminist thcery and pstedonil “Tenn th Environmental ais . studies grew dramatic ater 2000. These changes cme onthe hecs of {he politcal and piste olga struggles ofthe 1980s, when many wrote retructring which spared pbc debate abou the fture tench thehumanites, Arts mass ofeseachers nd eachersbegia to propose the envzonmntl humanities a2 positive espose to complen soi ‘svionmentl problems Many of them had suong bse of experience and suppot in public serie groups, museums, and nonprofit organizations ‘The practical orient of thee work reflected & new confidence in the ‘ale and organization f humanist ecrch Leacng voices alle for ‘obust oe for she humans alongside the soil and natural sles aeesstongersern chalenges tht wl ot yield oguick techie fies, ‘fw cent idess anticipated the envionment himanies fom within the asin tht contrite ta thei emergence Fr example, some envitonmentaly made philoopher recede eso ie thing ‘nse mmanue Kant as Dinan sci na new way" Kant wrote the Aiea of apprehending any object though the vents But envionmens ta pitosophy aneted tata dsconneced and Holted thing” or obec, oes not and cannot exit Rates, every abject an being i dened by ts ‘ealionship. spr of networks and ony as meaning in eatin ots surroundings. Sle auyng ature had sought o know the “thing In Ist” and to foatean eas in cage or ls conti Yel to grasp uly any form of i reqs stedyngt in Rs abla, wheres existence ‘efine by elations withers ofthe same species, and bythe planta mals, insects and micrsopic organises tha share its eavionmeat. Aste analysis becomes more alle, must inde more and more About the eavronment incng ie imate, food soures, predators competors roctation, nd soon, Les knowledge can be asin by studying “he an ise (wis wl scr ae kept oat) tan by sung an ahi In tsmormal envionment. Staying an ant colony traces lager patterns In space following ants they inhabit ther sutoundings and expand 10 theround ofthe seasons few ees of Kant ment rer and aged wth Alan Wats, an interpreter of sem tlgons, who declared hat “wha we ‘all hingsare no more an glimptes fied process Human beings are notindepersen ofthe natal wel, bt are pat of 1 rom an ecoogial pespective, the nsturecule dichotomy that mas ‘common during much f the nineteenth and tenth cents makes to sens, though tis dss rains one f the most power cncep- tlons of mature” Human belngs ae animals and are mortal To gute ‘iternt groups de no age with this pepoaion, however On He ne handsome constaive Chetan je the theory of evaution and sce human tings ed on Biblia suthoty not as animals but as beng ‘made i the imags of God. Indeed, there is even a erationst muse that purports to denonstate the istoclsecuracy ofthe ikl ration ston rom tis rpc, human moray ithe prelude toa immo falar Seto epi Enlightenment tionality rjc his ve Insen,sey a6 man ngs beng by thr very nature embeds in the natural wold From ths perspective, religion provides no escape rate from moray ‘Yet Chstnity and other rion ate not neces at els wth he evitonmental mani, Inde, rls leaders ad theologians are trl epeented i cent amhologles on environmental els and li imate fostice" Pope Franc chow! adel soc! ecloysts with his call in the 2015 eneyela! Landa for humans to respond ro the planetary cts of sci ngqualy and ecoogeal dyeadatlon™ Pope Fal 0 prociimed't, Fanci Ass “the paeon sit of ll who study and work Inthe ate of coli" There have been both Catholie ad Protestant eo Yogians witha deadly environmentalist view ofthe wold. To develop sucha perspective equites an acceptance of gut boogie mortality 2nd ‘ur dependence on ter pecs From an enily diferent perspective, & smal group Belews hat human tinge are about to evolve beyond moray. They think iat numa tings and machines il merge by combining advances in bog nd computing and they arguctt perpetual iets posse for manking.” Mos schlas in he envionment! homanities ae ot comfortable wth such views which are advance by some scents and fturologis, ne othe itor of he agate Wi, Kevin Kall agus tht technology rot cultural ut tua and that 3 prof evolutionary pocessthat ceed 50,00 yess ago when human beings invented Fngage lly is convinced that technology 3 mnfsiation of natural selection, tat i is detiona, an that "want oaciwe mor eseny, more OPO tunity and more complexity divers speciation fede, beaten tence, mua, ubigiy structure, and “evolNabity.” Human begs, inthis perspective ar unfinished, a thei developement 1 acelesing Some faturoogsts predict the emergence of supeitligent machines Beings ad nate, the ter understood a5 a materi o be ned and ‘manipulated So that human beings can evolve into geseilly enanced ‘cyborgs. This pespective puts human beng ly 3 fe center and soe Mle inherent we in other species. Kel deca, for example that “we ‘an se more of Godin acel phone than ate fog," But most cel phones ‘hogs which ee Seappenting at an alarming a, survived ins of yea Defoe human beings egpe to undermine thei colo Human bias donot have special eights lative to oer specks Rather ‘than vew anis and plants in terms of tel usefulness to humanity, sean see ther 36 having an inrns ght to exe, And when an ene for fie dapper lx imines human cure too. Ae Thor am Dooten writes, we mast move Beyond a “coe of hun excetonslien ‘at holds us put rom the et of the worl and, a8 such, contbuts to ‘ur inability oe afeced by the ince ss of this peso of extine Hons andso to mourn the ongoing deaths of species? Thesefundamental ers ofsntinse vale repro, anda ight to exis we allent in studies ‘of ntespecesratonships, but they ate also foundational fr other scot ts. n Jideo-Chitian igus tem, this view Isat ods with 9 Berl Enerpretation ofthe Olt Testmen, Yeti sabo possible to understand the sible fox, ater tanto vew them as landowner with an plicit ight vo a wat they pascal. The Sioux espoused ens compasle with the view ‘at al specks have rights, as many Buddhists eleve The Sioux leader Black i undesiod the inerependence of his people and the ecology of ‘he Great sins ad could not understand why white society was dete ‘ined to slur enoemas hers of bulla and take nly tei hide * ‘At 2 minimum, son had 2 right tobe sed propery andi hove thls ‘chnoweiged wen they were taken y hunters ‘The environmental mnt rele he notion tht Western cies specie. Dring the ge of Caropeaninperalexpanion roughly rom the ‘meofColumbws unl theme ofthe twentieth centr, technological supatonty was atten taken o be prot of cultura supesonty. Agel improvement of and and then contol of sane machines became 2 ‘reper the mesures of elt development” teprensble this wew may sce ey, iat eas 2sumed that no people were ier inferior, 2nd ‘hata ppl might become “advanced” by adopting West technologie. ower the aa that mre complex and power tchnsiogies re ihe. ently bers ficult 0 main A high etl sene ad engineering might em a poof of supvonty, yet no couatey had x move advanced satentie community than Gemmany when the Na at ook oats "Non Hore superior to South Koes ec it hae atom eapons? Were ‘The environmental humanities do not sch to etbah 2 Nerachy ‘ot cures ae as explicitly te case i many digi they deine ‘hemseves rom the middle ofthe runetcents century unt after Wed ‘War Acute hierzehy was quite expt nat atropology, with 185 evolutionary epology Rom hunter to “adwined indi peoples and wa foundsionl in wie ange of other dps, inch ing otic scence, the history ofa, and 12 centuy ago the dominant astumpion was that all clues ugh to ecome “developed” on a Westen sod, the envionment! Numaaties recogni that not al cultures are following the same hizocal wojny. ‘Weld cates ae not, nor should one try 10 make then, homogeneous. Fathercultrs offen focus on loa ecological Anowedgeand express how pau groups ive within ach place. Every culture s stincive tn pa ‘Bees evolves within spec locations. The patterns ie appropriate ‘onthe coasts of Greenland or onthe pls of Tanzania ats not wansferable to els Lo Angeles, o ce vera. Ts pt tie anaher may, every ee evolving snd adpting, nd ech finds is omn path tng pow What ate our dierent sedoms, igs, dnd responsbities In an age of extinctions, source iit, and climate iat? A new terminlogy ts emerged that trams ecological asin ew ways el defn of sme ofthese nl ides folo. Weegin sith the cof the cons, ont azole thease sf econ ny scsi there are some Ian tae eee BF esta pace therefor example hunting or raring donestc anil “Toetrergenc of he Evian Humane u sid hse sl he case oF come aboriginal peoples Celetv lind ownes- Ship was common In Brita in preloman tunes anit vemained impor ‘ant uni the fecal system emerged, with writen documents that both tepstered propenty ownership and slio protected lca rghs to we com- ‘mon lr ian sl is such nds which dept wht the ame ems to imply are no salable oeeryone. Rather, oly laa eden have the gh touse common lands, for example, o gases hose or cow Fishing ‘oundsprovde another exapleof an environment Hl in commen it ‘which aay be overexplited i thee ae inadequate safeguards oem remainsvibl, When such tes were shared oclly, the community under: Soe tte nee to conserve reoures forthe long tem, In vecent times, for wary of restos, fer people have taken esponsibility fr such spaces. This may be beau outers tpn to ie the commons, a a append with many Gshing grounds ut the fale to ake responsiblity emonal moby that weakens the eng o being pt floc conn rity, onthe averse shared cace resources by ged individuals, the lack of ettonmental conto to prevent polation, on the careless Indus discarding wastes on lel enclosures of commen to privatize -ecanome benefits, or on other factor, many sie eld in commen have ‘became severly compromised. They no longer me 3 sted resource that ‘bigs community together Debate ove the causes an gncace of “what cane tobe ale he “tragedy ofthe commons."ater the tite of ante by the eologist Gant Hardin published In 19693 tendency of| ‘comma pool esoutes tobe overages on.” Tis “ero the omy mons” Fd cety emerged a a sue bythe end of the 1970s, when the ull, joa and scholars ged on that name for ‘The able was not net, But istoially cul be een In seer ‘a3 ln etetn, for example, common lands hal ben subjected fo enlo=| sue ats that lone landowners to acqare them. mis acs were pat commens" sl pesged the development of tie envzonmentl human ‘es, andseveraladiona ems were developed ro this ne, ncading “commening” “tans,” and “resling One lesson ofthe commons Rather than expe ths ie “comervation, aman management i niger people terest national parks and nature preserves, 35 as ben « ‘oper pes" a susnablerelatensip.” Mh commons can be git swell 35 psa space, with such olaboaie projets 3+ Wikipedia exsmpy Ing the post tat sharing resources can inch koe aswel 2 pasture land of forests. One popular conception ofthe interne ies ‘charploned by the Ekctonie Hone Foundstion wat 383 eberapace that was outside market ad natal Bound” ‘Thinking about the rss ofthe commons become intestine with the realzaton that peopl, parca thor n advanced indus soit, ha 00 ite respect rater ie ors Hather than se istry sll in human tems, we shod include ater if ors, eng them ent {Bed with humanity. tt tajectodes of co-evolution, human beings have Emerge alongside cman ss th ls, he shepherd, his Jos. andthe sheep mutualydeine one another. heyhey farmers ay cxpes ns rains tothe rd Falcone etn to Understand the nay diferent bids of py behave, al no; fr example, hoe acon di ler fom hawks. As one experienced wonton put "Each one of the ators "ave hae has proven tobe 2 unique nv Philosophers and auiuopolgis wre of human an animal conn, heer the an alsin question are wid species we have struggled to preserve ordomeat ‘ated eats, ds, hws coms, nel bird Good aetna ake ast (of wil species. In Tanna One ntiave ofthe Jane Good estates to plant shade gow ete in ates near chimpanzse exer. The chimps show no intrest the beans, and thir oe cover Is preserve.” The ‘numaranimal reaonsp is understandably 3 he het of much sory teling. A eae, soins and schol of elon have shown, myth, synbols and saris of potent animal thera coyote tks an ancesial Kanga, or Dens avenguide una choses and fth out Mes meaning ‘tthe pratees of codecoming ae fundamentally tretened, One ofthe most widely 34 books of 2014 ws Eliabeth Kolbe’ The Sith Exton? Ahough the id of the sith erintlon m3 nt iia with er, Kolbest— sled wits for The New Trker—spread to mh ager udience, She bean by describing ive extinctions that occured ele the emergence of mankind noaby then that ile of the dos These fveettincions were de toast natal event sucha. meteors suing the eat a sphere and resulting ideas colin ofthe plant. The ath extinction, “Tstmergnne of the Enna Mamie s hic has continued with tle ntsuption since human bongs emergs In lies, has not ben caused by anata dss bt ater by us In mos eases, extinction of any one anil or erga wat not dae tan Intentional campaign of eradication bu rather wae an outcome of uncoordinated, nda actions that changed Habs, mate, eco- logeal stems, Huet dd ot selfconscously stout to wipe ou the ‘Gent Auk, 5 regs bd once found bythe millions from aly to ‘Nevrloundlan, Great us were once comnon in clad, where 3 hantet (apparenty not aware that he wae doing soiled the atone the word In 1821" Theextineton ofthe Gest AVE egied several thousand years ‘Thesiathexinton as. whole his not occred ata low and steady te, ‘but has aceeerated. For example, thee ae etensive coal els along the wos coots and a entry ago Ht would Ie seemed unl that coal could become an endangered species. But cing 4 8 vaity of human Interventions, 80 percent of the coral ree cover in the Caribbean has

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