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    Legitimizing rewilding as preservation may reduce politic... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Rewilding degraded environments is a legitimate means of preserving opportunities for value-transforming experiences with nature

    Legitimizing rewilding as preservation may reduce political pressure to prevent degradation in the first place, producing net value loss.

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    • 1.Accepting degradation as reversible reduces urgency for prevention, shifting resources toward restoration instead of protection.
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    • 2.Moral hazard: if actors believe damage can be 'fixed' via rewilding, they have weaker incentives to avoid causing it initially.
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    • 3.Rewilding typically restores only subset of original ecosystem functions, making prevention-first more efficient than damage-then-restore.
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    • 1.Prevention and restoration are complementary strategies; accepting rewilding doesn't logically reduce support for prevention absent evidence.
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    • 2.Many degraded lands are already economically committed to other uses; rewilding offers realistic recovery where prevention is politically infeasible.
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    • 3.Moral hazard requires actors to believe restoration will succeed; high restoration costs and failure rates actually incentivize prevention anyway.
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