What can we build on the other side?

If you had to boil it down to its essentials, how would you sum up the message of environmentalism?

In their book Rewilding, Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe suggest that there are three main points to the narrative:

“Nature, soils and the environment are in decline”“Human fecundity and poor stewardship are to blame”and “without action, humanity faces catastrophe”

The basics of this story can be dated to two influential books, they argue: William Vogt’s The Road to Survival, and Fairfield O...