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The Conquest of Nature and the Destruction of Papua New Guinea’s Rainforests |
| Published: June 6, 2008, 4:30 pm |
| Tags: oceania, nature, political philosophy, science, environment |
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From the BBC: High-resolution satellite images have revealed the “rapid deforestation” of Papua New Guinea’s biodiversity rich rainforests over the past 30 years. An international team of researchers estimates that the current rate of loss could result in more than half of the nation’s tree cover being lost by 2021. They added that the main threats came from commercial logging and burning. Existing conservation measures were failing to protect the world’s third largest rainforest, the team concluded. Commercial logging and burning. In other words, human beings and their seemingly bottomless reservoir of greed. As much as individual liberty, the conquest of nature — the effort to impose our will on it, not (as the ancients prescribed) to live harmoniously with it (and within its limits) — very much defines the modern project as set in motion by the likes of Machiavelli (see his famous discussion of fortune/nature, and how to oppose it, [ Full article ] |
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