Should certain natural areas be put under cloche?

As a result of human activity, certain natural areas are under increasing pressure. Should people be denied access to them altogether? Two Regard Libre editors debate the issue.

Photographer and editor at Regard Libre

Yes. Our existence, in all its deeds and gestures, fully integrates us into this primordial entity we call nature. This whole surpasses us, with no interest in the good or the bad, and no consideration for our presence. The survival of our species is its most exclusive good and purpose. I observe the moral or technical aims of the ecologist project through scientism and engineering with scepticism: the will to total mastery of the existential apparatus is an irrepressible extension of rationalist principles and the expression of an anthropocentrism t