As supplements to last week’s reading, attached is a retrospective personal essay by Bill McKibben on the writing of The End of Nature, together with a book by Alan Weisman, The World Without Us. Weisman’s extended thought experiment considers what the world would look like if humanity disappeared tomorrow - “Is it possible that, instead of heaving a huge biological sigh of relief, the world without us would miss us?”
See also the several video series on the theme of life after homo sapiens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o_ArhmvyCc
Given the prevalence of various eco-fascist memes over the past few years along the lines of “Humanity is the virus, Covid is the cure,” can you see any problems with fantasies of human absence in a re-wilded world?