An Alternative View
Environmentalists typically believe that human interference with 'nature' should be restricted or minimised as a matter of urgency (for the sake of life, or the planet, or just for the benefit of the human species), whereas both environmental skeptics and anti-environmentalists do not believe that there is such a need.
There is an alternative view which one can have. One can believe that both of the views expressed in the previous paragraph are wrong. On the one hand, the environmental skeptics and the anti-environmentalists are wrong because they underestimate the changes which humans have made to the biogeochemical cycles of the Earth. On the other hand, the standard environmentalist view is wrong because the response to the changes which humans have made should not be to pull back human involvement with the rest of the planet. Indeed, the situation is so dire (the environmental skeptics and anti-environmentalists are so wrong) that there is a need for geoengineering in the near future. One of the main advocates of this view is Neil Paul Cummins. One can be an environmentalist and believe that human 'interference' with 'nature' should be increased. Nevertheless, there is a risk that the shift from emotional environmentalism into the technical management of natural resources and hazards could decrease the touch of humans with nature, leading to a weaker concern with environment preservation. .
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