A review of the new book Tickets For The Ark, by Rebecca Nesbit
Nesbit hammers home the absolutely correct point that there is no objective scientific standard providing some kind of value-neutral ecological baseline toward which conservation should aim. Since there is no goal or end state toward which any particular ecosystem is heading, who is to say that landscapes and ecosystems modified by human activities are somehow inferior?
https://reason.com/2022/12/25/the-myth-of-wild-nature-and-creating-a-new-form-of-paradise/