9 - Conservation and Capitalism

Invent The Future

We interview conservationist Jules Jackson about the field of conservation, its relationship with corporations and its use in global capital, the narratives involved in eco-tourism, and how solving environmental problems is framed as an individual responsibility.

[EDITOR'S NOTES:
1. To supplement the recommendations at the end, we would also suggest participating in mass organizations and/or socialist parties and either finding what they're already doing related to the environment or finding new ways to do that work in those organizations.
2. Jules let us know afterwards that Jeremy Davidson was three years old, and the company was A&G Coal Corporation.]

You can reach Jules at [e-mail] for comments or further questions!

Outro: "4 Degrees," ANOHNI

Suggested reading:

Brockington & Duffy, ed. Capitalism and Conservation.
Graf von Hardenberg, Kelly, Leal, & Walkild. ed. The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation
Scott, James C. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
https://bluevirginia.us/2020/11/delegate-sam-rasoul-calls-for-decisive-action-to-cancel-the-mountain-valley-pipeline
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/opinion/lobbying-from-the-appalachian-mountains-to-washington-d-c/article_37288270-ad04-11eb-ac25-f7bfb6824fd8.html
https://roanoke.com/photo/photos-tech-professor-locks-self-to-mountain-valley-pipeline-construction/collection_b4ec55ad-77d1-54c5-a0a1-dec140b67443.html
https://all-med.net/pdf/our-roots-run-deep-as-ironweed/
https://appvoices.org/2021/04/16/tree-sitters-removed-mvp/
https://orionmagazine.org/article/moving-mountains/
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4489461
https://measurepnw.com/blog/what-is-greenwashing-a-nestl%C3%A9-case-study
https://www.jstor.org/journal/conssoci
https://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe
https://antipodeonline.org/

Examples of bad things:
https://www.corvuscoffee.com/blogs/news
https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfiles/5477/corporate%20environmentalism.pdf