"Human Restoration"

McKibben, Bill. “Human Restoration” Other Words: A Writer’s Reader. Ed. David Fleming. Dubuque, IA:Kendall Hunt Publishing Co. 2009. 165 – 177.

In the article “Human Restoration”, Bill McKibben recounts the gradual extinction of wolves from the Adirondack area, and he recent efforts to restore their numbers back. He believes that these efforts to restore the population reflect human’s desire to shape the land to our needs, and to symbolize a need for the wolves. Even though both D’Agata and McKibben take on different viewpoints, they are still connected to the central theme of humans and the interaction of nature. They are both concerned with how humans treat the environment, and the damages that have or would occur because of it. Both authors are also interested in how each of their respective topics will be put into execution (nuclear waste management for D’Agata, and relocation of wolves for McKibben). I feel that McKibben’s essay relates to my topic about the responsibility of humans in our environment, because that is his main concern as well, but he changes it by transferring it into the subject of the wolves.