Updated 12 December 2019
Beginning in the 1950s and continuing into the 1980s there was much controversy over what humans should or should not do about the California condor. Similar arguments about other endangered species persist and this, in part, explains why the now decades-old condor controversy continues to draw attention.
In this post I consider whether Charles Dickens can help us to better understand the “condor debate” and the current variants of this debate that involve other species.
