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 ## 2026-04-27
 
+### @{regeneration}
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+I like this book a great deal, but I don't think it is relevant.
+
+The Introduction and Epilogue were almost relevant. Painter described
+conservation as a rearguard action, 'ugly', 'underfunded', 'political',
+controversial, 'crisis management', caring for nature when the best options are
+unavailable, triage, 'least-bad choices', and said that many conservationists
+believe 'the natural world is doomed' and described conservation as 'fighting a
+rising tide'. However, the example of Mar Lodge Estate shows that humans and
+nature are more adaptable and resilient than you might expect. We can see the
+results of conservation, it is working.
+
+Terror is motivating ambition, he said in his Epilogue.
+
+In his Epilogue, he went on to speculate about the future of lynx introductions
+and what Mar Lodge Estate might become over the span of the Estate's 200-year
+plan.
+
+However, apart from light sprinklings of doom and gloom here and there, there
+was very little that was apocalyptic about this book. It is very realistic and
+historical-scientific rather than mythological or visionary. It strongly resists
+moral dualism, going out of its way to blur moral binaries, and is more
+interested in messy human lives, practical action and Realpolitik than pure
+morality.
+
 ### @{revealed-wisdom}
 
 A collection of nice but mostly irrelevant academic essays on apocalyptic. It