"It's a vision, a dream, if you like, like Martin Luther King's, and it means coming together on a planetary scale." (Nash) In historian Roderick Nash's essay "Island Civilization: A Vision for Human Occupation of Earth in the Fourth Millennium," Nash not only proposes the ideology of island civilization, but also puts readers to the challenge of being informed about the rights of nature. Get insight into conservation and nature options from minds like John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Wallace Stegner. Nash develops a plan of action for Earth during the fourth millennium. Illustrating the “wilderness” of our world, Nash teaches how the natural world will evolve a thousand years from now. In the wasteland scenario, Earth is almost entirely neglected. Civilians no longer live among the wonders of nature, but among waste and poison. A product of continued growth that has led to the massacre of ecosystems. From my point of view, this scenario makes the most sense for the future of Earth. At the rate of population growth, expansion and resource consumption, the inability to support our population appears to be leading to the Earth drying up completely. The second future scenario envisaged by Nash is that of the “garden scenario”. In this situation, humans seem to have reached their absolute potential thanks to technology. Rather than living in harmony with the environment, humans will have replaced necessary environmental processes with artificial ones or eliminated anything not necessary for personal survival. Diversity will have been eliminated and only wilderness will help human civilization. This scenario could never happen because Earth's food web is co-complex, removing ...... middle of paper ...... the world these scenarios can protect wild nature and our Cancerous tendencies self-destruct. Island Civilization is a great idea for a science fiction film, but as for a legitimate plan for the future of our planet, the idea is simply impractical. Roderick Nash seems to have been as optimistic as possible about the future, but he forgets the physical constraints that our planet allows. Although most of the scenarios Nash describes seem impossible, the wasteland seems the most feasible from my perspective, even if people don't want to realize that scenario. Works Cited by Roderick Nash. ISLAND CIVILIZATION A VISION FOR HUMAN OCCUPATION OF THE EARTH IN THE FOURTH MILLENNIUM. 2001. ... Worldometers. December 18, 2013 at 18:50:52. .