What Would Emma Say? Current effort to return Everglades to pre-human state thwarting bolder plans to preserve this environment?

Emma Marris: In Defense of Everglades Pythons – NYTimes.com.

Author of “Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World” — a book that everyone supporting the “blank check” approach to restoring the Everglades to its original state of purity really owes it to themselves to read. As the website for the book points out:

“A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the “rambunctious garden,” a hybrid of wild nature and human management.”

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