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In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World

Returning the planet to some sort of climate equilibrium is a universal interest.
Henry David Thoreau’s grave, Concord, Massachusetts
Source: Jeffrey Goldberg

this magazine know that we are preoccupied with matters of climate change, and that we worry about the future of our home planet. I appreciate (I really do) Elon Musk’s notion that humans, as a species, ought to pursue an extraplanetary solution to our environmental crisis, but I believe in exploration for exploration’s sake, not as a pathway to a time share on Mars.

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