FROM PREHISTORY through the contemporary (and clearly, into
the future), human life and nature have never been apart. Further, human life has/can enhance
wildness and bio-diversity.
[See
earlier post, “Reconciliation Ecology, 1/21/2011]
RECOMMENDATION: 2015 PBS Series Earth A New Wild
http://www.pbs.org/earth-a-new-wild/home/
The 2015 PBS series hosted by Dr. M. Sanjayan Earth A
New Wild illustrates
this well. It challenges the
assumption that human use of the Earth diminishes wildness and
bio-diversity. It illustrates how
human activity can enhance these processes.
This is not to say that human activity cannot diminish
bio-diversity. Clear-cutting of
forests would be such an example.
A large part of the environmental problem is our erroneous sense
of having become separate from wildness.
The key here is seeing how being inside landscape can mean
the optimization of bio-diversity as well as the fittedness of human life into
the larger Earth ecosystem.
