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April 5, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation

“The central ethical question addressed by Minteer is not only how far we might go to prevent biological extinction but also how far should we go. He comes to this conundrum as a distinguished environmental philosopher with a broad and...

April 4, 2019

Media Roundup: The Fall of the Wild

“Minteer bravely takes on the many facile assumptions of conservation’s technofixologists and misanthropes alike to offer us a humbler and hopefully more effective way to save and to savor the presence of the remaining living riches of the “natural” world.”...

April 3, 2019

Q&A: Ben A. Minteer on The Fall of the Wild

“What to do—and not to do—about the biodiversity crisis that we ourselves are engineering? In The Fall of the Wild, Ben Minteer takes us through the options. His assessment of the situation is balanced, clear-sighted, and humane.” ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The...

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Tag: Wildlife preservation

Book Excerpt! The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation

Media Roundup: The Fall of the Wild

Q&A: Ben A. Minteer on The Fall of the Wild