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Against Nature | Raj Patel & Tina Ngata

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The Role of NGO's in Conservation

I'm really interested by the ways in which lots of these efforts by NGOs, by international bodies reinstate the terms of alienation and domination that we've been talking about. I mean here in the United States, we have something called the National Park System, which is sometimes lauded as America's best idea but again it's very interesting to see the sort of long white supremacist history of what passes for green activity there. And if we're interested in transformative relationships to the rest of the web of life, then certainly one of the ideas that needs to go is the idea of humans being fenced away from the natural world. You know this sort of half planet socialism doesn't seem to be a very

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