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120 years ago, huge swaths of the US had been recently clear cut and didn't have a lot of forests on them. It doesn't even take ages for things to change. It'
by maxerickson 2y ago
120 years ago, huge swaths of the US had been recently clear cut and didn't have a lot of forests on them.
It doesn't even take ages for things to change.
It's unfortunate that the public idea of conservation has become so associated with stasis.
- goatlover 2y agoThe idea of preserving pristine environments as they were needs to go. There are none, and environments are always changing.
- rexpop 2y agoBit of a straw man. The ecologists I know of are interested in cultivating biodiversity and preserving habitats from the corrosive influence of development, pollution, and climate change. "Pristine" isn't a term I've heard used much in this context. The language of "virgin" land belongs to the lexicon of settler colonialism, not environmentalism.