A focus on the American environmental movement has been conservation and that’s why there is such rage at the Bush Administration’s efforts to log, mine or drill patches of wilderness from the Arctic to Florida. President Bush has done more than any other recent presidents to shift our environmental balance away from conservation and toward development… Yet the environmental movement is wrong to emphasize preservation for the sake of the wolves and the moose alone. We should preserve wilderness for our sake – to remind us of our scale on this planet, to humble us, to soothe us. Nothing so civilizes humans as the wild. That means that we not only have to preserve wilderness, but we also must get more people into it…… Nicholas D. Kristof, “Lost in Space,” New York Times (July 24, 2004) A27.
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