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The rate of extinctions globally is now hundreds, perhaps thousands oftimes higher than the historic incidence. Could we have already reached—or passed—the point of Peak Nature?
Stephanie Mills, LHDThe steps necessary to reverse the increased rate of extinctions (or at least attempt to) are easy enough to identify, says Stephanie Mills, LHD. But implementing them on a scale large enough to be effective will be a huge challenge.
"In nature, there is no waste," Mills writes. But humans are notorious for creating vast volumes of waste, especially many ubiquitous and nearly indestructible forms of plastic.
Read Mills' Peak Nature? article from the Post Carbon Reader here.
