This interview is a follow-up to an audio visual presentation narrated by author Dan Dagget. Dan is an author, journalist, environmentalist, and ecosystem restorer. He has written the books Beyond the Rangeland Conflict and The Gardeners of Eden. Topics of discussion include the differences between goals and issues, Holistic Management as a goal directed management process, the use of cattle as a tool to heal and restore the land, the shortcomings of research science in goal directed management, and human beings as a keystone species in maintaining critical ecosystem processes.
Please click on the link to view Dan’s Audio-Visual Presentation. (Best if viewed before listening to the podcast).
Beyond the Rangeland Conflict (via Amazon)
Gardener’s of Eden (via Amazon)
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One response to “Episode #109: The Gardeners of Eden”
I want to transcribe something that Dan Dagget said, that he wants to write a book about “how we are leaving the planet… how we’re getting rid of or cutting our ties to the planet, and how we’re abdicating and abandoning all the old jobs we used to do.” He said this, considering that contemporary American environmentalism is about reducing human involvement in nature and letting nature “do it’s thing” on its own, as opposed to continuing in our eons-old function as herders and predators.
Genius! Americans have looked to space as manifest destiny since the great depression, and this has coincided with dismantling our physical relationship to human-scale food, setting ourselves up to feel like: Yikes, now we really have to go!
Scylla and Charybdis: through wrong action we might pollute ourselves off the planet, or we might remove ourselves from nature (via use of “rest”, as Savory might say) and all it’s human-calibrated life support systems (water, soil, atmosphere composition, temperature) shift towards other species.