Nathaniel Owen

Nathaniel Owen is a social ecologist in Salem Oregon pursuing a Master's Degree in Natural Resources at Oregon State University. He is co-chair of Heart of the Valley DSA and his writing has appeared in DSA publications, The Trouble, and Counterpunch.

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Decolonizing Nature: How “Wilderness” Dispossesses Indigenous People

“In retrospect, it is clear that killing and displacing Indigenous groups which lived in a mutually beneficial relationship with their environment for tens of thousands of years and replacing them with a civilization that has brought Earth to the brink of eco-apocalypse in the span of two centuries was not the best strategy for protecting the environment.”