> This view ran counter to a lot of conservationist thought, as well as a great deal of evidence. Grazing has been blamed for turning vast swaths of the world into deserts. But from Creque’s perspective, how you graze makes all the difference. This is the idea behind this fantastic TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI We're largely focused on high-tech ways to "fix" the Earth, but the Earth has known…
The Earth doesn't "want" to do anything. It's a collection of physical, geological, chemical, biological, etc. processes that can exist in a variety of semi-stable equilibria - some small number of which are amenable to human life. There is no evidence of any intentionality of any sort, no teleology, no preferred "healthy" state.