From the Ted Talk by George Monbiot: For more wonder, rewild the world
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And when you look at it like that, you think, wait a minute, here are the wolves changing the physical geography of the Yellowstone National Park. Here are the whales changing the composition of the atmosphere. You begin to see that possibly, the evidence supporting James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, which conceives of the world as a coherent, self-regulating organism, is beginning, at the eyceosstm level, to aulatcmuce.
tiporhc cascades tell us that the natural world is even more fascinating and copemlx than we thought it was. They tell us that when you take away the large animals, you are left with a radically different ecosystem to one which retains its large animals. And they make, in my view, a proefuwl case for the reintroduction of missing species. Rewilding, to me, menas bringing back some of the missing plants and animals. It means taking down the fences, it means blocking the drainage ditches, it means preventing cmmaecroil fishing in some large areas of sea, but otherwise stepping back. It has no view as to what a right ecosystem or a right assemblage of species looks like. It doesn't try to produce a heath or a modaew or a rain foesrt or a kelp garden or a coarl reef. It lets nutrae decide, and nature, by and large, is pretty good at deciding.
Open Cloze
And when you look at it like that, you think, wait a minute, here are the wolves changing the physical geography of the Yellowstone National Park. Here are the whales changing the composition of the atmosphere. You begin to see that possibly, the evidence supporting James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, which conceives of the world as a coherent, self-regulating organism, is beginning, at the _________ level, to __________.
_______ cascades tell us that the natural world is even more fascinating and _______ than we thought it was. They tell us that when you take away the large animals, you are left with a radically different ecosystem to one which retains its large animals. And they make, in my view, a ________ case for the reintroduction of missing species. Rewilding, to me, _____ bringing back some of the missing plants and animals. It means taking down the fences, it means blocking the drainage ditches, it means preventing __________ fishing in some large areas of sea, but otherwise stepping back. It has no view as to what a right ecosystem or a right assemblage of species looks like. It doesn't try to produce a heath or a ______ or a rain ______ or a kelp garden or a _____ reef. It lets ______ decide, and nature, by and large, is pretty good at deciding.
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Original Text
And when you look at it like that, you think, wait a minute, here are the wolves changing the physical geography of the Yellowstone National Park. Here are the whales changing the composition of the atmosphere. You begin to see that possibly, the evidence supporting James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, which conceives of the world as a coherent, self-regulating organism, is beginning, at the ecosystem level, to accumulate.
Trophic cascades tell us that the natural world is even more fascinating and complex than we thought it was. They tell us that when you take away the large animals, you are left with a radically different ecosystem to one which retains its large animals. And they make, in my view, a powerful case for the reintroduction of missing species. Rewilding, to me, means bringing back some of the missing plants and animals. It means taking down the fences, it means blocking the drainage ditches, it means preventing commercial fishing in some large areas of sea, but otherwise stepping back. It has no view as to what a right ecosystem or a right assemblage of species looks like. It doesn't try to produce a heath or a meadow or a rain forest or a kelp garden or a coral reef. It lets nature decide, and nature, by and large, is pretty good at deciding.