I once believed favoring the environment was something entirely reserved by the political left. Instead, I have discovered that the classical conservative ideals of responsibility, limits, and place work far more powerfully towards achieving the aims of conservation than most realize. Indeed, though our political parties don’t always make it seem this way, these conservative ideals can more effectively solve our environmental challenges than their modern liberal counterparts of subjectivism, boundlessness, and globalism.

The path towards solving our complex environmental challenges is not straight, and these issues are not black and white. Join me as we unpack the nuance of these issues together–and discover with me the optimistic truth.

John Constable – Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1829, via tate.org.uk
In our most glorious and technologically advanced places, no one can see the stars. Is our glory, namely our technology, mutually exclusive with the glory of God?

I am a conservationist, secondly, because I am a Christian. Upon the creation of man and woman, God declared that mankind shall “rule over the…

I am a conservationist, foremostly, because I am a conservative. The two terms have in recent decades been viewed as antithetical, though one is clearly…
A South Carolina conservative, dedicated to the cause of responsible leadership and environmental conservation. Conservation is conservative!