The author criticises both enthusiasts and critics because each
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. makes claims about nature that go further than the evidence allows
- Step 1: The author says 'both sides overstate'.
- Step 2: Enthusiasts overstate nature's self-management; critics overstate the loss from leaving land alone.
Answer
makes claims about nature that go further than the evidence allows.
Why not the others: Neither side is accused of avoiding wild places, supporting land sales, wanting government payment for all land or wishing to remove beavers; each simply overstates its case.
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