Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization

[...]in the report "A Global Deal for Nature (GDN)," a team of conservation biologists mapped out "a science-driven plan to save the diversity and abundance of life on Earth ... [to] avoid catastrophic climate change, conserve species, and secure essential ecosystem services" (Dinerstein et al. 2019, 1). [...]Abundant Earth is a text rooted in freedom. Crist, with the eye of a critical theorist, states that the "most overarching of modern-age anthropocentric concepts is that of natural resources, which linguistically crystallized the postCartesian secular view of nature as purely material, mechanical, and lacking inherent purpose" (67). Human expansionism has brought us the juggernaut of expanding world economies; exponential population growth; the sprawl of industrial infrastructure, both urban and rural; and industrial agriculture with its impacts on fresh water, topsoil, native species, and wild nature.