Environmentalists decry President Trump’s border wall as an environmental disaster. But this Fox News report demonstrates there is more to the issue than wildlife species being disturbed resulting from the wall being built. Naturally, they are seeking to stop its construction.
We tend to over-romanticize nature by only seeing her as the great mother while being blind to the tyrannical side, because we are spoiled by the protective force of culture and civilization. This over-romantization of nature is often used to justify anti-human fantasies.
Breitbart reports that a new study authored by Professor Lauran Whitworth of St. Mary’s College in Maryland and published in the academic journal Feminist Theory defines the increasingly popular term ecosexual and their encounters with the natural environment. Whitworth describes one ecosexual person’s first sexual encounter with a redwood tree at Yosemite National Park. She…
Three Illinois environmentalists with the group Protect Our Parks are engaged in litigation to prevent the construction of President Barack Obama’s Presidential Center. According to the Chicago Tribune, the three assert in their lawsuit that the city of Jackson Park and Park District lack the legal ability to make the public parkland available for the…
In 1903 President Teddy Roosevelt advocated a new way to conserve America’s wilderness – one that depends on partially on hunting and gun sales. Unfortunately, decades later, that system is starting to break down.
Piping plover birds are located primarily on the northeast coast of the United States and are classified as an endangered species. A unique habit of the feathered creature is that they lay their eggs usually in beach sand. Their egg-laying season takes place around late April or early May. The eggs start hatching the bird…
Some welcome news from The Wall Street Journal that US recycling programs maybe on the verge of collapse. As it turns out, scrap paper and plastic prices have dropped resulting in municipalities to charge residents more to collect material for recycling since to do so recycliong is no longer profitable and the costs continue to…
