We interview conservationist Jules Jackson about the field of conservation, its relationship with corporations and its use in global capital, the narratives involved in eco-tourism, and how solving environmental problems is framed as an individual responsibility.

[EDITOR'S NOTES:

1. To supplement the recommendations at the end, we would also suggest participating in mass organizations and/or socialist parties and either finding what they're already doing related to the environment or finding new ways to do that work in those organizations.

2. Jules let us know afterwards that Jeremy Davidson was three years old, and the company was A&G Coal Corporation.]

You can reach Jules at JacksonJV@hollins.edu for comments or further questions!

Outro: "4 Degrees," ANOHNI

Suggested reading:

Brockington & Duffy, ed. Capitalism and Conservation.

Graf von Hardenberg, Kelly, Leal, & Walkild. ed. The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation

Scott, James C. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

https://bluevirginia.us/2020/11/delegate-sam-rasoul-calls-for-decisive-action-to-cancel-the-mountain-valley-pipeline

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/opinion/lobbying-from-the-appalachian-mountains-to-washington-d-c/article_37288270-ad04-11eb-ac25-f7bfb6824fd8.html

https://roanoke.com/photo/photos-tech-professor-locks-self-to-mountain-valley-pipeline-construction/collection_b4ec55ad-77d1-54c5-a0a1-dec140b67443.html

https://all-med.net/pdf/our-roots-run-deep-as-ironweed/

https://appvoices.org/2021/04/16/tree-sitters-removed-mvp/

https://orionmagazine.org/article/moving-mountains/

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4489461

https://measurepnw.com/blog/what-is-greenwashing-a-nestl%C3%A9-case-study

https://www.jstor.org/journal/conssoci

https://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe

https://antipodeonline.org/

Examples of bad things:

https://www.corvuscoffee.com/blogs/news

https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfiles/5477/corporate%20environmentalism.pdf