buttermellow's review against another edition
3.0
I read this book for a class, in which we spent every class going over a chapter and intensely analyzing it. By the last few weeks I was very ready for this book to be over and to be done with Dowie. As the book progressed, the author just became more and more obnoxious with his arguments. He was extraordinarily one-sided, he didn't cite his work properly and pulled most things out of his ass, and what he did cite was from biased sources.
I'm a science person. I definitely believe in conservation and the need to protect the world's ecosystems, but I'm with Dowie that the way we're going about protecting the Earth is not the best for the native peoples who happen to live in these areas that need protecting. We kick them out of their homes, take away their livelihoods, and basically take away all of their possibilities to live independent, productive lives. Which is horrible of us.
But this book is not the place to read about it. I would not recommend it. If you're interested in the topic I might recommend the introduction, because that gives a great overview to the topic and was pretty interesting, but I was let down was I got to the rest of the book.
I'm a science person. I definitely believe in conservation and the need to protect the world's ecosystems, but I'm with Dowie that the way we're going about protecting the Earth is not the best for the native peoples who happen to live in these areas that need protecting. We kick them out of their homes, take away their livelihoods, and basically take away all of their possibilities to live independent, productive lives. Which is horrible of us.
But this book is not the place to read about it. I would not recommend it. If you're interested in the topic I might recommend the introduction, because that gives a great overview to the topic and was pretty interesting, but I was let down was I got to the rest of the book.
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