Indonesia is planting seventy nine million trees in one day.

The human made construct of wilderness has an interesting comparison to Lovelock's idea of dumping nuclear waste in national forests to keep humans out. He argued that humanity is the most destructive component of any ecosystem; yet Mann is arguing that many of the natural habitats we call wilderness have been scaped by humanity's control of fire and in many cases human intervention in the ecosystem was keeping it in balance.

Man is an active and essential component or participant in the ecosystem, not one of pure destruction, or a malignant presence. It is cause for an interesting tension in how we view natural systems. Humanity is, after all, of Terra.