Expanding Parks, Reducing Human Numbers, and Preserving All the Wild Nature We Can: A Superior Alternative to Embracing the Anthropocene Era

RECENTLY, THE CLAIM has been made that Earth has entered a new geological era. The Holocene has ended and the Anthropocene has begun, in which humans have become an important geochemical force, and perhaps the dominant ecological force on the planet. Moreover, conservationists are advised to embrace the Anthropocene era, in which humanity not only dominates, but rightfully dominates, the biosphere.