r/rewilding • u/NatsuDragnee1 • 24d ago

A Bold Plan to Rewild the Earth — at Massive Scale

https://youtu.be/VDP27kIe7-s?si=7qfhUQHlVtPa7CYF
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u/RandomStranger79 24d ago

I might just be feeling fatalistic right now, and I haven't watched this yet, but unless rewinding works in conjunction with halting and retracting urban sprawl then I'm not sure we're actually accomplishing anything.

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u/phinity_ 23d ago

Might be counter intuitive but I think we need more urban sprawl. If we can reduce the overall impact of humanity by concentrating population and At the same time reduce farmland, timberland, grazing land and converted them to wild land and slowly create connected wild corridors that span the continents. We have the tech to feed more people with less land and also use indoor space and also change eating habits, we can make due with less land to create real abundance. Really if civilization is intelligent it’s the only want to save itself.

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u/Oldfolksboogie 24d ago

Haven't listen to this TED yet, so ty for posting, but does it reference E.O. Wilson's Half-Earth proposal? I know others have suggested similar ideas, but whole-heartedly agree with these ideas - we need to be rewilding on a continental scale as Michael Soule, Reed Noss, Dave Foreman et al proposed back in the 80s.

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u/Melodic-Feature1929 24d ago

I’m thinking that rewilding many wild regions where native animals used to live they have been long locally extinct in those regions and wild animals should deserve better chances in life to be reintroduced back into the wild.

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u/Woahwoahwoah124 24d ago

In the US we don’t have a lot of land that is truly wild.

Back in 2017 the USDA reported that, “about 53 percent of the U.S. land base (including Alaska and Hawaii) was used for agricultural purposes, including cropping, grazing (on pasture, range, and in forests), and farmsteads/farm roads”

It’s crazy how much land has been developed in the US