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Rewilding

Context

Across the world, urban dwellers have been alienated from the wildlands that surround them. A little more than two centuries ago, only two percent of the Earth’s population lived in cities. We are fast approaching a time when most do. Ironically, we are increasingly dependent for our sanity on the non-indigenous animals we call our pets and perhaps a backyard garden of exotic vegetation, some raised vegetable beds or a few potted, exogenous plants.

Implementation

In Britain, George Monbiot and others have urged that top predators be re-introduced to the countryside.

In the U.S., there have long been successful moves to reintroduce wolves to wilderness areas. Yellowstone’s wolves have had a startlingly benign impact by rebalancing the park’s ecosystem.

Claim

It may be time to consider the measured re-introduction of our own species into the wild in a last ditch effort to re-discover the circumstances of sustainable co-habitation with non-human life-forms.

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Narrower

Rewilding the body
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Idealizing nature
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Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Content quality
Unpresentable
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Language
English
D7NID
240342
Last update
Nov 8, 2018