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    It is not the case that Rewilding degraded environments is a legitimate means of preserving opportunities for value-transforming experiences with nature

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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