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    Rewilding degraded environments is a legitimate means of ... — Carmelics
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    Rewilding degraded environments is a legitimate means of preserving opportunities for value-transforming experiences with nature

    Environmental Ethics
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    • 1.Experiences with wild nature can change or enhance people's valuations of nature
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    • 2.Opportunities for such experiences are lost when environments are degraded
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    • 3.Rewilding can restore wild character to degraded environments and even parts of cities
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    • 1.Rewilded environments are deliberately managed constructions, not genuinely wild spaces free from human intention and control.
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    • 2.Value-transforming experiences with nature depend on encountering something genuinely other than human will and design.
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    • 3.Experiences in rewilded landscapes are therefore encounters with an artifact, not with wild nature as philosophically distinct from culture.
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    • 1.Robert Elliot's 'faking nature' argument holds that restored nature lacks the value-conferring causal history of original nature.
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    • 2.If restored landscapes are axiologically inferior to originals, they cannot serve as equivalent substitutes for the experiences lost through degradation.
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    • 3.Legitimizing rewilding as preservation may reduce political pressure to prevent degradation in the first place, producing net value loss.
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    Despite the variety of positions in environmental ethics developed over the last thirty years, they have often focused on issues concerned with wilderness and the reasons for its preservation (see Callicott and Nelson 1998 for a collection of essays on the ideas and moral significance of wilderness). The importance of wilderness experience to the human psyche has been emphasized by many environmental philosophers. Næss, for instance, urges us to ensure we spend time dwelling in situations of int
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