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By framing urban areas as degraded, depauperate and deficient, we are undervaluing its inhabitants—wildlife and people alike.

Left unchecked, sea urchins can mow down kelp forests, leaving behind a denuded and depauperate undersea landscape.

And no, the environment is not hopelessly despoiled and depauperate, say “ecomodernists” such as Ronald Bailey in The End of Doom, Ruth DeFries in The Big Ratchet Chris Thomas in Inheritors of the Earth, and Stewart Brand in Whole Earth Discipline.

There are some of these iconic, immense landscapes that look terrific from the air but they’re really depauperate of lion prey.”

The loss of a crucial proportion of Earth's fauna during the next 50–100 years would be irreparable over the time frame of human existence, and future societies may struggle to live sustainably if left with unstable, depauperate life-support systems.