San Antonio College Library

Is the future of Earth to be domesticated, with technocrats managing the planet as an engineered global garden? Is it time to embrace the so-called Anthropocene, the age of human dominion, and abandon the goal of a beautiful, ecologically diverse planet with enough habitat for all of life to flourish? In Keeping the Wild, a luminary cast of scientists, writers, and activists join the hottest intellectual battle in contemporary conservation. -- Book...

When the national park system was first established in 1916, the goal "to conserve unimpaired" seemed straightforward. But Robert Keiter argues that parks have always served a variety of competing purposes, from wildlife protection and scientific discovery to tourism and commercial development. In this trenchant analysis, he explains how parks must be managed more effectively to meet increasing demands in the face of climate, environmental, and demographic...