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Gardeners of Eden
Dan Dagget
其他書名
Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature
出版University of Nevada Press, 2017-03-15
主題Nature / GeneralNature / Environmental Conservation & ProtectionScience / Environmental ScienceHistory / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
ISBN19438593619781943859368
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QG2VDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Dan Dagget believes that humanity can have a positive effect on the land. He demonstrates case after case of positive human engagement in the environment and of managed ecosystems and restored areas that are richer, more diverse, and healthier than unmanaged ones. Much of pre-Columbian America, he contends, was not a pristine wilderness but an ancient garden managed over millennia by native peoples who shaped the plant and animal communities around them to the mutual benefit of all.

Dagget recommends a new kind of environmentalism based on management, science, evolution, and holism, and served by humans who enrich the environment even as they benefit from it. His new environmentalism offers hopeful solutions to the current ecological crisis and a new purpose for our human energies and ideals. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the earth and anyone seeking a viable way for our burgeoning human population to continue to live upon it.