Wilderness is disappearing…

Yes, we know that the wilderness is disappearing due to urban sprawl and human intervention. A new map has been released to show travel time to major cities, which parallels the amount of human interaction and thus the amount of wilderness being destroyed. Wilderness? You don’t really even have to worry about it. There is only about 10% of the land which is remote, which means more than 48 hours from a city. Just another factoid, 95% of the people live on 10% of the land. Accessibility is needed for nearly all economic needs, but the trade-off is loss of wilderness. I guess one good thing that comes out of this is it seems we’re more interconnected socially, economically, and physically than ever before. A map created for the World Bank World Development Report 2009 shows urbanization. This sucks. I guess I’m not really going to be in the wilderness for a long time now.

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