How Humans Deal With A Changing Natural Environment (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Today is the 50^th anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act of 1964.  The act drew protective lines around millions of acres and their wildlife.  To mark the anniversary, humans and nature from two angles today.  One, that my guest Ruth DeFries calls the Big Rachet – the human pattern of pushing nature to its limits, paying a price, then recovering – even more dominant – with human ingenuity.  Will we do that this time?  Then nature writer Jordan Fisher Smith joins us to look at the health of our wilderness itself.  This hour On Point:  nature and the wild in a time of planetary climate change. / Tom Ashbrook

Interview:
https://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/09/03/wilderness-act-fifty-years-nature