The Trouble with Wilderness
The trouble with wilderness is that humans have newly reconstructed it. Most people who have no idea about wild nature now misdescribe wilderness. Wilderness now exists only as a concept in human minds. Lately, the perception about wilderness has changed. People, mainly from western societies, perceive wilderness as a place free from modern civilization. In today’s world, the desert has admirers who look at it has a peaceful and quiet place where someone can visit and connect with nature.
Initially, the wilderness used to be an isolated place where no one wanted to live. Then civilization flogged and people lost the actual connection of human production and nature. People started to get food from the supermarkets rather than the farm and working with machines to earn rather than on the land (Vannini,2018). Nature became scarce, and for that reason, people now feel suffocated with modernization that they have started viewing and describing wilderness differently. Humans have changed, and their way of thinking has changed as well. Now that plenty and big cities surround people, the desert has become important to them. Decades ago, going to the wilderness seemed a dangerous idea and a forced decision. Wilderness used to be a place with zero humanity in it. Then today, people are struggling to get away from their homes to go to the wilderness because they feel that the wild nature is more natural and feels more like home.
However, different individual has different perception of wilderness-based on their social background of an individual. Rural residences view wilderness differently from the urban ones. Rural settles have more interaction with natural settings and are aware of the reality of the wilderness (Whatmore,2018). Urban residents, on the other end, only have a social media flittered image of the wilderness, and that is why they perceive it to be something it is not. People living in cities have modernized their habitant, and that has resulted in them thinking wilderness is a peaceful escape from loud human bustle.
In conclusion, the problem with wilderness is that it has been reconstructed to what is not. Nowadays, people want to preserve and control and control the reality of wild nature. People living in urban areas starve for a natural setting to the point that their perception of wilderness has changed. The urban environment has been modernized, and nature made scares. Therefore, the trouble with wilderness is that people want it offers the natural feeling that their homes cannot.
References
Vannini, P. (2018). Wilderness. In Companion to Environmental Studies (Vol. 136, No. 139, pp. 136-139). ROUTLEDGE in association with GSE Research.
Whatmore, S. (2018). Reimagining the spaces of N/nature. Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography, 265.