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Paul Wapner

Princeton Alumni Weekly Podcasts

Irish Tech News Audio Articles 

The Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights

Scott McVay

John Milton

John Evans

Laura Simms

Patricia Smith

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Bryan Walsh

Maria Tatar

Alan Krueger

John Drummond

Kieran Setiya

Cate Holahan

John Stewart

Leo Damrosch

Jim Marshall

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Most people in the developed world can control the amount of wildness in their daily lives by simply shutting the door and adjusting the thermostat. But the COVID-19 outbreak has reminded us that the uncertainty and discomfort of the biological world is never completely locked away. Limiting our interactions with the nature has consequences, according to professor and author Paul Wapner *91, including a tendency to “put the burden of our comfort … onto the lives of those who are less fortunate.” The use of fossil fuels and destruction of natural habitats has also increased wildness in a global sense through climate change and extinction, and bold scientific interventions aimed at curbing those threats could push us further from the natural world. In his new book, Is Wildness Over?, Wapner advocates for a different path: “re-wilding.” (Photo by Sylvia Renick)

PAWcast: Paul Wapner *91 on Reviving Connections to the Natural World (May 2020)

Paul Wapner - The Future of Environmentalism: The Politics of Sacrifice in an Age of Comfort (October 20, 2008)