Wise Use - Wise Use and Political Ecology

Wise Use and Political Ecology

James McCarthy has contrasted the environmental movement's treatment of claims made by the organized wise use movement with the approach taken when local resources users conflict with conservationists in developing countries. According to McCarthy "academics, leftists, and environmentalists who had been broadly sympathetic to movements elsewhere" dismissed as a corporate front similar claims when made by groups in the United States. McCarthy argues that the wise use movement could be studied as political ecology.