“The storyteller of an environmentalism that has to do with liberating humans, an environmentalism based on freedom, I honestly believe that voice will come from the global south. It will not come from Eurocentric cultures, quite frankly, that have had hegemony over the process to date and have failed.” -Carter Dillard
This conversation between Jack Humphrey and Stable Planet Alliance advisor Carter Dillard was published March 24, 2023 as The Rewilding Earth Podcast. You can listen to it here in its original form.
Topics
Anthropocentric vs. ecocentric approach toward conservation and rights of nature
Moving toward a “town hall” version of governance vs. current system of “shopping mall” growth at any cost
Moving humanity closer to a view of nature for its own sake
Extra Credit
The basis for this episode: The Secret War on Natural Rights—and Children | Opinion
Recent Newsweek article by Carter: Today’s Trolley Problem: Only One Track Leads to the Future | Opinion
Mentioned in this episode: Peter Fiekowsky “Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race“
Carter, author of Justice as a Fair Start in Life, began his career as an Honors Program appointee to the U.S. Department of Justice. He later served as a legal adviser to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in the national security law division. He wrote his thesis reformulating the right to have children under Jeremy Waldron, his extensive academic work on family planning has been published by Yale, Duke, and Northwestern Universities, as well as in peer-reviewed pieces, and he has served on the Steering Committee of the Population Ethics and Policy Research Project and was a Visiting Scholar at the Uehiro Center, both at the University of Oxford. He has taught at several law schools in the U.S., served as a peer reviewer for the journal Bioethics, and most recently managed an animal protection strategic impact litigation program, with annual resources in excess of five million dollars.
Jack Humphrey, Director of Digital Outreach (D.O.D.O.!) for The Rewilding Institute, is also host and producer of the Rewilding Earth Podcast. Jack started rewilding work as Executive Director of Sky Island Alliance in the mid-1990’s, organizing the Sky Island Wildlands Network design, ripping up illegal roads on forest service lands, installing wolf acclimatization pens on Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch & conducting howling surveys to help make way for the final stage of the Lobo reintroduction program in the Southwest. Through the years, Jack has worked with Dave Foreman and the Rewilding Gang to further rewilding initiatives and education. |Subscribe | Join The Rewilding Institute Movement |
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