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"The World Without Us"
What would the earth look like if humans suddenly disappeared? An audacious new book imagines a people-free planet, and restores our sense of awe.
By Gary Kamiya [2007-07-23]

  • In cities is the preservation of wildness

    >>If we seek preservation of "wild areas" the only certain method to acheive this without massive war, opression, and genocide is through mass modernization and industrialization of the people of the world.

    Yes! The book 101 Ways to Help Birds says, "Henry David Thoreau wisely understood that 'In wildness is the preservation of the world.' But on a planet populated with billions of humans, almost three hundred million right here in the United States, in cities is the preservation of wildness."

    -- chickadee
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    Monday, July 23, 2007 09:21 AM
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