“It's a vision, a dream, if you like, like Martin Luther King's, and it means grouping together on a planetary scale.” (Nash) In historian Roderick Nash's essay entitled “Insular Civilization: A Vision for Human Occupation of the Earth in the Fourth Millennium,” Nash not only advances the ideology of island civilization but also challenges readers to be informed about the rights of nature . Gain insights into nature and conservation options from minds like John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Wallace Stegner. Nash devises a plan of action for Earth during the fourth millennium. Using the example of the “wildness” of our world, Nash educates about the ways in which the natural world will evolve in a thousand years. In the wasteland scenario, the land is almost completely neglected. Civilians no longer live among the wonders of nature, but live among garbage and poison. A product of continuous growth that has led to the massacre of ecosystems. From my point of view this scenario is the most logical for the future of the Earth. At the rate of population growth, expansion, and resource consumption, the inability to sustain our population appears to lead to the Earth drying up completely. The second future scenario imagined by Nash is that of the “garden scenario”. In this situation, humans appear to have reached their absolute potential in technological terms. Instead of living in harmony with the environment, humans will have replaced necessary environmental processes with artificial ones, or will have eliminated all things not necessary for personal survival. Diversity will have been eliminated and only wild nature will help human civilization. This scenario could never happen because Earth's food web is complex, removing... half the paper... the world and these scenarios can keep the wilderness safe and from our cancer-like tendencies. to self-destruction. Island Civilization is a great idea for a science fiction film, but as far as a legitimate plan for the future of our planet goes the idea is simply not feasible. Roderick Nash seems to be as optimistic as possible about the future, but he forgets the physical constraints that our planet allows. Although most of the scenarios Nash describes seem impossible, the wasteland seems the most achievable from my point of view, even if people don't want to make this scenario happen. Works Cited by Roderick Nash. ISLAND CIVILIZATION A VISION FOR HUMAN OCCUPATION OF THE EARTH IN THE FOURTH MILLENNIUM. 2001. ..Mondometers. December 18, 2013 at 18:50:52. .