Why does the author say nature will not return to 'a fixed original state'?
Rewilding proposes returning land to a more natural state, sometimes reintroducing species that have been lost, such as beavers or lynx. Enthusiasts speak as if nature will manage itself if left alone. Critics reply that the landscape we cherish was made by farming, and that leaving it alone would lose open meadows, hedgerows and the birds that depend on them. Both sides overstate. Nature left alone does not return to a fixed original state, because climate and species have changed; yet farmland is not inevitably richer in life than land allowed to run wild. The sensible approach is to be clear what each place is for, and to choose the management, whether more or less intervention, that best serves that purpose and can be reviewed.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: E. Because climate and species have changed in the meantime
- Step 1: The passage says nature left alone does not return to a fixed original state because climate and species have changed.
- Step 2: The only choice consistent with this is "Because climate and species have changed in the meantime".
Answer
Because climate and species have changed in the meantime.
Why not the others: Farmers are not said to prevent a return; the author does not claim that no original state existed, that beavers are not native or that land is too expensive.
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