Why we shouldn't rewild land

Rewilding is the process of converting fairly substantial tracts of industrial land back into nature. What once was farmland or a logging area returns to its natural state. The consensus among most people tends to be that it’s a pretty uncontroversially good idea. This consensus, I think, is badly wrong. Rewilding is extremely immoral worse than almost any other thing we do and we should refrain from it barring exceptional circumstances.

What’s so bad about rewilding? The basic case against is that it majorly increases wild animal suffering. If we assume wild animals are spread uniformly across Earth’s land, then each square mile of land contains 1,754-17,540 mammals, 1,754-1,754,000 reptiles, and 1,754-1,754,000 amphibians.

https://benthams.substack.com/p/rewilding-is-extremely-bad?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

Where things get really extreme is with insects.

On average, a square foot of land contains about 750 insects. https://reducing-suffering.org/the-importance-of-insect-suffering/ This means that if you rewild a square mile of land, over the course of a year, 20.9 billion additional insect life-years will be lived. If we assume that each insect lives two weeks a fairly reasonable https://benthams.substack.com/p/there-should-be-less-nature?utm_source=publication-search estimate then a mile of rewilded land produces about 585,480,000,000 (five-hundred-eighty-five-billion-four-hundred-eighty-million) extra insect lives and deaths annually.

Are exposed ridges the coolest kind of trail?

I am looking at getting into cross country skiing. I live in Alaska and am looking to get out into the woods more during winter. I have some outdoors experience from thru hiking and hunting but when it comes to skis I am a complete beginner. I have downhill skid a couple of times years ago so I know the bare bones basics of the pizza and french fries and thats about it. Cross country seems a bit more practical for exploring around my area, riding a lift and going down the same hill over and over again doesnt really do it for me.

I dont want to spend a ton of money especially since I dont know what to look for in equipment, I am considering picking up some gear off facebook marketplace. I have some nice hiking trekking poles which I assume would be fine to use?

Can somebody point me in the right direction towards a beginners guide or some good youtube videos to get me started? I am trying to figure out what gear I need, what size/length skis (I am 193cm) and what shoes might be compatible with what skis etc etc
Also do I really need to wear those tight ass queer pants?

Pictured here is one of my favorite plants, if not my favorite. Broadleaf Plantain.
It's a healing plant, vulnerary, useful especially for bug bites and persistent itchiness. Makes amazing balms.

Where were you when you realized that plants are god's consolation for the skeeter?

Any herbalists ab/out/? any stories of being saved by your wide knowledge of wonderful plants like these?

I was looking for a large hemp backpack when I found this good looking one
https://www.ecofrico.com/products/himalayan-bag
I was wondering if it is of low quality sonce it is cheaper than others i found.What does /out think?

Puohokamoa Falls #water #hawaii #rain #vacation #waterfall #reels #youtubeshorts #nature #beautiful
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“When the rope is off, you can’t afford to slip,” explains free solo climber Austin Howell. Austin Howell was a rock climber for 12 years, 10 of which had been primarily as a free-soloist. He was the kid that climbed the tallest tree in hide and seek never to be found. He took up rock climbing at an indoor gym in college. After college, he worked day jobs that called for him to climb 300-foot cell towers, often in harsh weather. He became a proficient lead climber, requiring him to go long stretches between safe points.

Unhooking the rope for the first time for Austin was not an epiphany; it was practical. He was half-way up a steep rock face, felt weighed down by the heavy bag of bolts and the ropes on his back, and simply unhooked himself and passed the gear to his climbing partner.

“Soloing in one way is the most obvious way in the universe,” he explained, speaking proudly of John Muir in 1888 climbing Cathedral Peak. “Essentially he free-soloed that cliff to the top of it, and free-soloed it back down.” For centuries, Pueblo people had built houses into the sides of tall cliffs without any safety devices. Carabiner and belays didn’t arrive until 1933.

“Subjectively there’s nothing safe about it. There’s risk and there’s consequence. The consequence is very obvious,” he said.

One month after talking with Blue Ridge Outdoors, Howell, age 31, fell 80 feet to his death on a free solo climb at Linville Gorge.

I’m looking at doing some camping in northern NM this winter and don’t have the chedda for a 0degree bag. Is the darky bag worth? I have got the three season but never got issued the black bag only ever heard stories

I can’t get past this point on the trail. It’s like a 3 or 4 meter foot vertical drop with nothing to grab onto but the rope. I tried to do the thing where you put your feet on the wall and go down backwards but they slipped on the rocks and I only managed to keep myself from falling by holding hold onto the rope with pure panic strength, then I turned back.

Is it simply a skill issue or is there a technique to it? I’m also usually the only one on the trail, so I’ve never seen anyone else do it either.