BIOL 3130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Anthropocentrism, Wilderness Therapy, Environmental Planning
22 Mar 2016
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In 1965 the hatred of wilderness was sill alive: people like robert wernick felt that good things were dependent on keeping wilderness at bay in both nature and the human heart. Like puritans he was frightened of the wilderness in man. In response to these criics wilderness defenders needed to develop a philosophy: wilderness appreciaion used to be a faith, with emoional and franic defenses that no one within the movement was supposed to quesion. This didn"t help with poliical cases, where most of the fate of the wilderness is decided. Preservaionist instead resorted to arguments unrelated to their main concern, instead of explaining the value of rivers and their canyons. Opponents of wilderness preservaion even in the 20th century saw it as man versus wild: preservaionists were seen as locking up valuable resources and reducing man to a primiive state.
