{"product_id":"going-green-book-mark-poynter-9781925501926","title":"Going 'Green'","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving a strong culture of caring for the environment is a byword for a healthy society. However, it can go too far, and in highly urbanised Australia where most live remote from nature, decades of alarmist environmental campaigning has fostered a misguided conservation culture that lacks perspective, is intolerant of human resource use, and sees environmental protection in overly simplistic terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to this culture, forests are only ever protected when contained in large national parks or other forms of landscape reservation which are popularly presented as a vacant idyll that will magically restore itself to a natural, pre-European state. Unfortunately, this misconception ignores: 1) the extent to which forests have already been changed by unnatural fire regimes and the introduction of an array of feral and noxious pests; 2) the role played by active human intervention in managing these problems; and 3) the extent to which this management is associated with renewable resource use that generates wealth, requires access, and employs workforces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter several decades of acquiescence to this misguided conservation culture, Australia, which has been a world leader in integrating sensitive, renewable forest use and active management with high standards of environmental care, is progressively losing these skills.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines our conservation culture and how it has attained a political-correctness which has permeated the most influential areas of society with damaging consequences, not least for the environment itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52585158836497,"sku":"NLS9781925501926","price":17.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52756569129233,"sku":"NIN9781925501926","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781925501926.jpg?v=1761052299","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/going-green-book-mark-poynter-9781925501926","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}