Enough wildness and beauty remain to reanimate the world, if we love it enough. It isn’t inevitable that all the nooks and crannies where wildness and wild creatures persist will be crushed by ATVs or other gas toys. It isn’t inevitable that civilization will usurp all of the remaining wild, productive habitats. These keystone species, like prairie dogs, beavers, coyotes, cougars and wolves, still hang on by their teeth and claws. I know that many of you still have the capacity to feel and act compassionately toward the controversial, inconvenient, and weaker ones including the keystone species that keep ecological systems from dis-integrating. It symbolizes our failure to feel the beauty of wild, the worth of undominated things. This trend represents a negation of humanity’s ethical compass. The “anthropocene” is a hypothetical episode during which the worth of biological diversity is measured mostly by economists, not poets, artists and naturalists. THE ANTHROPOCENE: ARE KEYSTONE SPECIES DOOMED? All abstracts are sorted by first author. If there is a problem with your abstract, please contact the Secretariat ASAP, and we’ll make sure it gets fixed.
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