Rethinking Nature: A philosophy to the rewilding
Rethinking Nature: A philosophy to the rewilding Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes – I mean the Universe (Galileo Galilei). In 1988, Time Magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’ was not a man but or even a human but earth itself. This earth has been for millennia the taken-for-granted background for all human activities. It has served as a storehouse and refuse bin. Nature is the abode of life but it is disappearing fast. Because of the impact on the world of nature, many people call the present age “the Anthropocene” coining this term to echo geological ages such as the Eocene and the Pleistocene. What they mean is that human impacts have become predominant over the whole surface of the Earth. When the degradation of the harmony between nature and humanity emerged and the sustainability of our planet earth are questioned, many eco-philosophers came forward to reinterpret the ethics in t