
Conservation
Rethinking Humanity’s Ties to Nature
The lesson from the pandemic is not to retreat from the natural world but to become a better steward
Oswald J. Schmitz is the Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.
The lesson from the pandemic is not to retreat from the natural world but to become a better steward
Fundamentally, nature’s economy is sustained because species create a grand circular economy in which materials are produced, consumed, decomposed, and then reused.
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