Discordant harmonies in views of natural systems by The Sierra Club and others

Posted on 15 August 2021 by ecoquant

This essay was first publish at the blog of the Green Congregation Committee, First Parish in Needham, on the Parish Realm Web site and communications board. The views obviously are those only of its author, not of First Parish or the Green Congregation Committee. It is republished here in part to reach a broader audience.

A longer review of Botkin’s book will be published on my channel at Goodreads.

From Rangel, Thiago F., Neil R. Edwards, Philip B. Holden, José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, William D. Gosling, Marco Túlio P. Coelho, Fernanda AS Cassemiro, Carsten Rahbek, and Robert K. Colwell. “Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves.” *Science* 361, no. 6399 (2018).

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(*) I will be writing a detailed review of Botkins book at Goodreads: https://goodreads.com/ecoquant.

(**) S. Tatsumi et al. “Prolonged impacts of past agriculture and ungulate overabundance on soil fungal communities in restored forests”. In: Environmental DNA (2021). URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/edn3.198.

(***) Maybe California Actually Does Have Enough Water

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-14/california-drought-maybe-the-state-actually-has-enough-water

(****) R. L. Ryan and M. B. Wamsley. “Perceptions of wildﬁre threat and mitigation measures by residents of ﬁre-prone communities in the Northeast: Survey results and wildland ﬁre management implications.” In: The public and wildland ﬁre management: social science ﬁndings for managers. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, pp. 11–17. URL: https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/18648.

(*****) A. Szasz. How we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. URL: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/shopping-our-way-to-safety.

(******) R. H. Whittaker. “Recent evolution of ecological concepts in relation to the eastern forests of North America”. In: American Journal of Botany 44 (1957), pp. 197–206.

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