Founding member of Earth First!, author of the definitive guide to monkeywrenching, reformed environmentalist jailbird, and recent advocate for populating the American plains with large mammals from Africa like lions and elephants, David Foreman will speak at the Grand Ave. Patagonia store on Thursday night about the need for values-based environmentalists to reclaim the conservation debate from the pragmatists and scientists. [1]
I’m going to go see Foreman speak tonight. I don’t think I have too many local readers, but if anyone’s interested in joining me, drop me a note.
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[...] Dave Foreman, so much more than the founder of Earth First!, presents a strange blend of doom ‘n’ gloom and a progressive plan to save America’s wilderness. It’s perhaps best seen in his newest endeavor, which is, from my understanding, to create a network of “wildlands” in North America that would allow large mammals the unbroken spaces they need to survive. It’s ambitious, to say the least. A project that would certainly take some time to effect. The idea of successfully creating such a trajectory to “rewild” parts of our devastated landscape is to make even the most pragmatic of wilderness advocates smile a little, to think that maybe if we stop compromising, stop settling, maybe not all will be lost. But, no sooner does one become affectionate for the idea than Foreman mentions the key structural element: that these wildland networks would be oriented north-south, so as to facilitate the massive northward migration of species that he forsees will be necessary as the climate change crisis accelerates. [...]