Place – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:55:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 How to save the planet: environmental conflicts in a new light — By Justin Farrell | Financial Times https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/07/how-to-save-the-planet-environmental-conflicts-in-a-new-light-by-justin-farrell-financial-times Mon, 27 Jul 2015 21:37:19 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=15745 77e2d8f5-c1be-4dca-9123-67e8375ea364.img

One of the most symbolic and substantively important examples of environmental conflict is over Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone is the first national park in the world, and perhaps the most important natural treasure in the US. More recently it has become a site for bitter and long-lasting environmental conflict. And it has made me wonder how the scientific arguments around the issues sit with the emotional reactions inspired by the landscape and history.

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