Wilderness ethics fails whether it stresses continuity or independence alone

Evidence

For accounts caught in the dualist dilemma between treating the self as hyperseparated from an alien other or as unable to recognise unassimilated otherness, the great reservoir of otherness represented by wilderness is full of hazards. Accounts which base their analysis entirely on affirming human continuity with nature cannot recognise what seems to be the major distinguishing and value-making characteristic of wilderness, its independence of the human. On the other hand, accounts which stress only the independence of wilderness have foregone any basis for countering the western construction of nature as alien, or for providing a foundation for ethical relations to it. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 604

Categorization

• XREF: Directly answers the reader’s eco-justice concern with wilderness as a settler concept — and connects to Merchant and the land/place thread. — connects to: Wilderness is a cultural construction, not an untouched natural sanctuary — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 5; Solving environmental problems requires an ethic for the home landscape, not just remote wilderness — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 67; The American wilderness sublime cannot translate to densely inhabited Southern valleys — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 437 (+1 more)
• SEED: An essay on how ‘wilderness’ as independence-of-human is itself a dualist trap could bridge environmental ethics pedagogy across the polyad.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source