{"id":7332,"date":"2013-09-06T05:26:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=7332"},"modified":"2013-09-06T05:27:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:27:42","slug":"from-aprmay-2012-was-cactus-eds-last-joke-on-us-edward-abbey-the-21st-century-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/06\/from-aprmay-2012-was-cactus-eds-last-joke-on-us-edward-abbey-the-21st-century-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(from Apr\/May 2012) ‘WAS CACTUS ED’S LAST JOKE ON US?’ Edward Abbey & the 21st Century—Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the second decade of the 21st Century, Abbey Lives.<\/p>\n

He lives in his books. He lives on YouTube and on Facebook. His fans adore him, or who they think he is. But is this the world and the West that he cherished and loved?\u00a0 Is the New West compatible with his vision of wilderness and wide open spaces?\u00a0 In 2012, he would not recognize the\u00a0 wilderness he sought to protect (though in his journals, in 1987, he had already complained, \u201cToo many tourists in the backcountry now.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Environmental groups, once dedicated to saving the wilderness that Abbey envisioned, now look at wilderness as a commodity to be marketed. What is the economic value of wilderness? Environmentalists promote the notion of a swarming tourist economy. They\u2019ve taken a favorite Abbey line: \u201cThe idea of wilderness needs no defense; it needs more defenders,\u201d and turned it into a Chamber of Commerce promo\u2026.the more money that can be made from the product, the greater the chance, in their estimation, of passing wilderness legislation. Nevermind what gets destroyed in the process.<\/p>\n

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