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- No place on the planet is entirely free from human impact, but a Wilderness is one area where care is taken to ensure human impact does not predominate.
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Oct 11, 2019 · “To us, none of Alaska is wilderness as defined by the 1964 Wilderness Act — a place without people. We are deeply insulted by that concept, as we are by the whole idea of ‘wilderness designation’ that too often excludes native Alaskans from ancestral lands.”
Apr 23, 2021 · Cronon argues that Thoreau’s notion of wildness is often taken as a synonym for wilderness. But for Thoreau, wildness isn’t a place absent of human influence.
Dec 1, 2021 · “Wilderness” rhetoric has long been used to justify denying land rights to Indigenous people and to erase their long histories. What’s more, thinking of nature and humans as incompatible makes it...
Most scientists and conservationists agree that no place on earth is completely untouched by humanity, either due to past occupation by indigenous people, or through global processes such as climate change or pollution.
Aug 24, 2012 · There’s no place left on Earth that’s entirely untouched by the hand of man—not even Antarctica, or the depths of the Pacific. Still, even thought the concept of wilderness is a bit of a myth, not all myths are bad.
Jul 4, 2019 · The greatest threat now is being bitten by other people, who have turned to cannibalism. The ideology of man against wilderness stands revealed: without doubt, the real wilderness is inside us.
Aug 20, 2024 · Rewilding does not pursue wilderness, no longer possible in the hybrid Anthropocene, but aims to restore the spontaneous order of the wildness. The Anthropocene changes the metaphysics that held ecological restoration practices
