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Recreating the wilderness

The science gets ever more dire. The politics runs the other way.

We've claimed hold of the planet, but cluelessly, like the sorcerer's apprentice. Welcomed to the Anthropocene: the age of humanity intertwined with nature.

"Climate change is not a problem we have to make go away, in a sense that you don't make adolescence go away," astrophysicist Adam Frank said to Chris Hedges. "It is a dangerous transition that you have to navigate. . . . The question is, are we smart enough to deal with the effects of our own power?"

The planet itself is transitioning, to God knows what. There may be no human

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