Decolonize Conservation / Ashley Dawson

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Ashley Dawson joins This is Hell! to discuss their new book, "Decolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous Self-Determination, Land, and a World in Common," co-edited with Fiore Longo and Survival International Ashley Dawson is currently Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He currently works in the fields of environmental humanities and postcolonial ecocriticism.

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0:00.0	The water is with the the Lord is with the our power in the way
0:14.0	God
0:15.0	I look at the mr mr mr mr mr Oh, uh, I was. Thank you, man.
0:24.0	Make it back! This is hell.
0:36.0	Yes.
0:38.0	is hell.
0:39.0	Okay.
0:40.0	Live from late capitalism where we know the price of everything but the value of nothing.
0:47.0	This is how National Parks are where we connect with nature.
0:53.6	Absent the horrific impact of industrial capitalism,
0:57.5	there are refuges for pristine ecosystems
1:00.8	untouched by human hand, or at least as much as they can be.
1:05.7	In conserving the wilds, we are still able to commune with what is increasingly disappearing
1:10.9	and natural landscape. By saving it from, by keeping distinctly separate
1:16.7	from humanity, we may even be able to save the world from climate change. That's at least what was being considered at last
1:24.7	December's UN Conference on Biodiversity. At the time the Guardian reported
1:29.2	that the plan is to fulfill the dreams of the late biologist naturalist ecologist entomologist the father of
1:36.1	sociobiology e o wilson's
1:39.9	wilson advocated for protecting half the planet for the long-term survival of humanity.
1:46.0	The movement is known as 30 by 30, like 30X 30, 30 by 30, as in 30 percent of land
1:52.4	protected and managed by 2030.
1:55.0	A group called Campaign for Nature pushed for 30% of land and see by 2030 for so-called protection.
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