McKibbens and Man-Made Nature

MicKibben's book The End of Nature seems to draw on many of the conceptualizations of nature that we've discussed in class and in some instances builds on them. For example, McKibbens addresses the idea of wild untouched nature that we've seen from Williams' article, he maintains that we use this conceptualization as more than just a way of separating ourselves from nature: adopting this viewpoint acts as almost a subconscious form of denial as we "shut the destroyed areas from our minds." I thought it was interesting that while Williams argues that we need to dispose of the idea of nature as separate from man so we can become more conscious of the consequences of interacting with the environment, McKibbens predicts that this shift is fated to happen because we have actually altered its forces and "deprived nature as its independence." He even goes as far as to say that we have made "every spot on earth man-made and artificial.”