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“The meaning of wilderness changed forever once nature had to be protected from civilization, rather than the other “National parks were made necessary by man’s growing dominance over nature, and it is the exponential growth in that capacity that presents the parks with their greatest challenge today.” These same parks are foremost victims of the climate crisis with an uptick in droughts, wildfires and ecological diseases. Unless fossil fuel use diminishes, scientists warn that national parks will no longer remain a refuge for humans or animals.
