Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth

Is it time to embrace the so-called Anthropocene--the age of human dominion--and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated, an engineered global garden managed by technocrats to serve humanity? The schism between advocates of rewilding and those who accept and and even celebrate a post-wild world is arguably the hottest intellectual battle in contemporary conservation. See more