This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West - Christopher Ketcham
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A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West - and a plea for the protection of these last wild places
The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It’s an American commons, and it is under assault as never before.
Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the listener on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior’s failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act - including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse - and investigates the destructive behavior of US Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists, and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations.
This Land is a colorful muckraking journey - part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair - exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage. The book ends with Ketcham’s vision of ecological restoration for the American West: freeing the trampled, denuded ecosystems from the effects of grazing, enforcing the laws already in place to defend biodiversity, allowing the native species of the West to recover under a fully implemented Endangered Species Act, and establishing vast stretches of public land where there will be no development at all, not even for recreation.
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This post has 11 comments with rating of 5/5
July 28th, 2019
Thank you for ‘This Land’.
July 28th, 2019
We must protect the land for urban Progressives. Let’s start returning Long Island to the wild.
July 28th, 2019
Whenever I hear the word “Journalist”, I reach for my … What a load of crap!
July 29th, 2019
If Ketcham is such a naturalist that he wants to run the American cowboy off his land, then why is he so willing to give up on capitalism, as man’s most natural state of economics? The answer can be found in one word: “collectivism!”
The cowboy represents the ultimate rugged individualist and the epitome of self-reliance, which is exactly what Communist collectivists despise.
This is why so many conservatives and libertarians lean towards conservationism rather than environmentalism.
August 16th, 2019
@Jiminy Cricket
In real life cowboy represents minimum-wage hired hand, living paycheck-to-paycheck,hoping to become a rancher (just like his boss).
And rancher is not so self-reliant either.If his bank or meat processor Cargill say “JUMP !” he better start jumping…
August 16th, 2019
thanks alot!
This will be the environmentalism book of 2019
November 2nd, 2020
@Jiminy_Cricket - in the end, none of the political leanings really matter if the land becomes destroyed due to privatization. The whole point is that there should be as much heavily protected land put aside as possible. Once it gets developed it never goes back. The constant pressure to develop and profit from the land, comes from the rugged idealists that you seem to idolize and justify through a system of political smoke and mirror thinking. The real point is the land. People are transient. The land last a lot longer. And we need to do whatever we can to preserve it. This is a very conservative view point. Just ask a hunter.
November 2nd, 2020
@Jiminy_Cricket - in the end, none of the political stuff really matters if the land becomes destroyed due to privatization. The whole point is that there should be as much heavily protected land put aside as possible. Once it gets developed it never goes back. The constant pressure to develop and profit from the land, comes from the rugged idealists that you seem to idolize and justify through a system of political smoke and mirror thinking. The real point is the land, not the people. People are transient. We need to do whatever we can to preserve it. This is a very conservative view point. Just ask any hunter.
May 22nd, 2022
could anyone please seed this? thank you!
May 27th, 2022
could anyone please seed this? thank you
July 14th, 2023
Could someone please seed _/\_
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