Despairing this Earth Day?

April 23, 2018

Photo Credit: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS

Are the forces of an eventual breakthrough and environmental recovery already gathering strength around us? In honor of Earth Day, WCS's Joe Walston speaks with The New York Times about four key pillars of conservation in the modern era—a stabilized human population, increasingly concentrated in urban areas, able to escape extreme poverty, and with a shared understanding of nature and the environment.

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