Wilderness protection has historically been affiliated with wealth and class privilege

Evidence

It is no accident that these supposedly inconsequential environmental problems affect mainly poor people, for the long affiliation between wilderness and wealth means that the only poor people who count when wilderness is the issue are hunter-gatherers, who presumably do not consider themselves to be poor in the first place. The dualism at the heart of wilderness encourages its advocates to conceive of its protection as a crude conflict between the “human” and the “nonhuman”—or, more often, between those who value the nonhuman and those who do not. This in turn tempts one to ignore crucial differences among humans and the complex cultural and historical reasons why different peoples may feel very differently about the meaning of wilderness. — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 64

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘wilderness and wealth’ affiliation connects to the polyad’s settler-colonial and class critique threads and to leisure-class environmentalism studies. — connects to: Wilderness recreation is a class privilege that devalues rural land-based labor — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 65; Wilderness preservation grew directly out of the vanishing-frontier lament. — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 29; Wilderness conservation areas were built and maintained by coerced black labor — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1236 (+2 more)

Related

• Wilderness recreation is a class privilege that devalues rural land-based labor (similarity 0.88)
• Wilderness appreciation was an elite urban leisure projection, not a rural ideal. (similarity 0.86)
• Wilderness is a cultural construction, not an untouched natural sanctuary (similarity 0.85)
• Wilderness is a cultural construct, not a place that exists apart from humanity (similarity 0.79)
• Wilderness ethics fails whether it stresses continuity or independence alone (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Wilderness is a cultural construction, not an untouched natural sanctuary #expands (0.80) — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 5
• Seeing how wilderness connects to settlements heightens the sense it must be preserved #expands (0.80) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1640
• Wilderness conservation areas were built and maintained by coerced black labor #expands (0.75) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1236