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Why is the Crisis in Conservation Largely Ignored by Media?

January 9, 2015 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, conservation, conservation biology, ecology | 37 comments

https://nedediciones.com/uncategorized/g8s379se With climate change commanding the news spotlight, dominating environmental discourse, you don’t hear much anymore about biodiversity or endangered species, two interconnected issues which, until the last decade or so, had been a focus of many environmental campaigners and widespread media coverage. A case in point: In recent years, the conservation community has been at… https://solomedicalsupply.com/2024/08/07/lqaodmb Continue Reading…

When Ecology and Values Become Entangled

January 7, 2015 by Keith Kloor | Filed in conservation, conservation biology, ecology, environmental history | 4 comments

Environmental journalism, by and large, reflects not just news of the day (and an underlying theme) but also the zeitgeist. For example, when I made ecology my beat in the late 1990s, stories about the biodiversity crisis were prevalent in mainstream media and in environmental magazines–one of which I worked at through most of the… Continue Reading…

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Conservation Biology at a Crossroads

January 6, 2015 by Keith Kloor | Filed in biodiversity, conservation, conservation biology, ecology | 11 comments

In a brilliant essay (PDF), the American geographer D. W. Meinig writes: “Any landscape is composed not only of what lies before our eyes but what lies within our heads.” Meinig’s piece is in a classic 1979 book of essays called, “The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes.” This collection features scholars whose work touches on the human/environment relationship…. Continue Reading…

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Perhaps Global Agricultural Trends aren't as Dire as We Thought

June 30, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in agriculture, carbon footprint, climate change | 19 comments

https://transculturalexchange.org/m8amtlqt0gm Many people working in the global sustainability arena tend to be focused on one of two knotty issues: 1) climate change or 2) food security. The former is devilish because we have to figure out how to power the developing world while reducing our overall carbon footprint. The latter is also complex because we have… https://www.clawscustomboxes.com/x2at3vhi Continue Reading…

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Facing Up to the Anthropocene

June 20, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Anthropocene, climate change, Energy, environment, environmentalism | 46 comments

https://solomedicalsupply.com/2024/08/07/9z3i7xb3zt9 Several years ago, I wrote about about an insurrection in the environmental movement. A new group of greens–called eco-pragmatists–had taken on the old nature-centric guard, which still held sway but also had rendered environmentalism anachronistic and ill-equipped to address complex 21st century challenges, such as climate change. It was a battle between what I called… https://foster2forever.com/2024/08/3yoiwsbt9.html Continue Reading…

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The Merchants of Doom

March 17, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in collapse, ecocide, ecology, environmentalism | 15 comments

By Alprazolam Online Paul Ehrlich and Ann Ehrlich, two long-time prominent voices in the environmental community, often speculate about the future of humanity. They recently shared this anecdote: A few years ago we had a disagreement with our friend Jim Brown, a leading ecologist. We told him we thought there was about a 10 percent chance of avoiding a… Continue Reading…

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The Well-Intentioned, Misguided Eco-Doomers

December 20, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Anthropocene, ecocide, ecology, environment, environmentalism, select | 140 comments

https://sugandhmalhotra.com/2024/08/07/ypeu1lh7h If you are a regular consumer of environmental news and commentary, you are familiar with the narrative of humanity’s downfall. The story, we are told, looks like this. If we continue to ignore the danger signs while exceeding the planet’s carrying capacity, the future may get ugly. For the time being, we are on… https://nedediciones.com/uncategorized/51yfan41151 Continue Reading…

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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

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… Continue Reading…

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Should the Precautionary Principle Shut Down Wind Turbines?

November 18, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in birds, ecology, Energy, environment, environmental journalism, wildlife, wind farms, wind turbines | 86 comments

https://mandikaye.com/blog/7xz8ykesw In 2012 Scientific American asked: Are Wind Turbines Getting More Bird and Bat-Friendly? In case you weren’t aware, wind energy has an ecological downside that’s hasn’t yet been smoothed out. As AP reporter Dina Cappiello wrote earlier this year, “the green industry is allowed to do not so green things”: It kills protected species with impunity and conceals the… https://merangue.com/suqmgbrki Continue Reading…

The Ecological Insurgency

August 31, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, environmental history, global warming, select | 9 comments

A new video by Climate Desk explains “how climate change is fueling wildfires” in the U.S. West. The truth is a good bit more complicated, which James West attests to in the accompanying text: In this video, Matthew Hurteau—assistant professor of forest resources at Penn State University—explains how warming temperatures, prolonged drought, and a century’s worth… https://sugandhmalhotra.com/2024/08/07/7jjj2lzng Continue Reading…

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