By avoiding the need for major cultural change, garden reasoning of this type overlaps with today’s probusiness, libertarian calls for privatization and for unleashing the market. All such thinking resists the notion that America’s individualistic consumer-oriented culture is materially flawed. All of it rejects the worry, and the evidence, that human arrogance is much too vast.

A critique of Michael Pollan’s book Second Nature from the book Why Conservation is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground by Eric T. Freyfogle.