Sublime

savage than the Americans?

1970s, academic turned farmer Wendell Berry wrote about how economic success includes the hidden cost of depriving people “of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water.”⁠14 What was once the riches of self‑reliance have become things with a price.

Local, human-scale economies and food systems that honor the “triple bottom line”: people, planet, and profits.

In Western culture, it was the conservation ecologist Aldo Leopold who provided the first modern formulation of an ecological and environmental ethic.

A dirty secret of the conservation movement is that wilderness preserves are set up only after indigenous peoples have been decimated or forcibly removed from them, including the national parks in the United States and the Serengeti in East Africa.5 As the environmental historian William Cronon writes, “wilderness” is not a pristine sanctuary; it i

Among hunters and forest workers in Germany, 35 percent have alpha-gal sensitivity;

"We'd better import some of these ladies and set 'em to parking the United States,"

predation is not a matter of morality or of politics; it, too, is a matter of symbiosis. Brutal as the wolf may be to the individual deer, the herd depends on him for its well-being. Without predators to cull the herd deer overrun their habitat and starve—all suffer, and not only the deer but the plants they browse and every other species that depe

Claire Pennoyer Chouinard high up in a merlin’s nest, Cascapedia River, Quebec,