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Renegade Naturalist Radio #2: Interview with Arctic Explorer John Bockstoce

July 31, 2012 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

This episode of Renegade Naturalist Radio features historian, author, and archaeologist, John R. Bockstoce (audio player above.)John has been traveling and working in the North since 1962. There, he carried out a series of excavations at Bering Strait, serving for ten seasons as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew at Point Hope, Alaska. In the 1970s he descended the Tanana … [Read more...]

I believe we are mostly on the wrong track in the way we try to deal with the environment. Everything I do, study, learn, and advise about the environment is different from the status quo. Throughout my career, I have tried to understand how nature works and use that understanding to figure out how we can solve our most pressing environmental problems.

My process over the past 45 years has been to look carefully at the facts, make simple calculations from them (sometimes simple computer models) and then tell people what I have learned. It’s surprising how rarely people bother to look at the facts. This has surprised me every time I’ve started a new ecology research project or work on an environmental issue.

In the course of my work and studies, I have learned many things and I want to tell you about them. That is the purpose of this website.

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