Wild animals and plants are described as “resources” or “stocks”, as if they belong to us and their role is to serve us: a notion disastrously extended by the term “ecosystem services”. “The environment” is just as bad: an empty word that creates no pictures in the mind. ![]() Had you set out to estrange people from the living world, you could scarcely have done better.Įven the term “reserve” is cold and alienating – think of what we mean when we use that word about a person. ![]() At sea, they are labelled “ no-take zones” or “ reference areas”. ![]() On land, places in which nature is protected are called “ sites of special scientific interest”. So why do we use such language to describe the natural wonders of the world? There are examples everywhere, but I will illustrate the problem with a few from the UK.
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