Origins of Environmental Action

摘要

Wilderness preservation has been a battleground issue for forty years because it involves fundamental values about humans and the world, positions that reached the level of religion—taking that as humans' attempts to find a place in the universe anda purpose in life. Both sides held to variants of the modern secular religion of science, one seeing wilderness as sacred space and ecology as our guide to a new harmony with nature, the other viewing the land as, ultimately, resources.