Stephen Gould - Eight Little Piggies

"We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well—for we will not fight to save what we do not love."

 

From the essay Unenchanted evening by the late (1941 – 2002 ) American geologist, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist Stephen Gould in the 1993 collection of his essays Eight Little Piggies.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould

 http://web.archive.org/web/20040503211224/http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/1200_feature.html

 

Professor Philip Cafaro - Life on the Brink

Modern economic theory reads as if cancer had found a voice.

 

From the epilogue of the 2012 book Life on the Brink edited by Professor Philip Cafaro an Environmental Virtue Ethicist.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_virtue_ethics

Henry David Thoreau - ‘Huckleberries’

 "Most men, it appears to me, do not care for Nature, and would sell their share in all her beauty, for as long as they may live, for a stated and not very large sum. Thank God they cannot yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. We are safe on that side for the present. It is for the very reason that some do not care for these things that we need to combine to protect all from the vandalism of the few."

 

Written by the late, great Henry David Thoreau (1817 –1862), in the 1861 essay ‘Huckleberries’.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau

Andrew McLaughlin - ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’

……with the current human population, we must disinhabit significant portions of the Earth, leaving them with fewer humans. Although this does not mean that indigenous peoples cannot live in such areas, it does mean that they cannot pursue industrial paths within those areas.

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from the American deep ecologist Andrew McLaughlin’s 1993 book ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’.

 

http://blogs.stuzog.com/dandeliontimes/recommended-reading/

 

http://www.academia.edu/2928820/_Regarding_Nature_Industrialism_and_Deep_Ecology_Review_