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In Nature Natural? – 1491 Redux
(10/10/2009) - If I had to pick one of my essays that I liked the most, Is Nature Natural? would have a good shot at winning. Over the past week, I’ve been glued to the pages of Charles C. Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, and flashes of my argument in Is Nature Natural kept coming back to mind. Not because Mann addressed them directly, but because
In Is Nature Natural? I basically argued that the duality between Man and Nature is highly dubious, and that moral arguments that rely upon this duality are wrong. And, because the Man vs. Nature duality is often foundational in the arguments put forth by conservationists for the protection of nature, their arguments are wrong:
