Move everybody into cities and rewild?! Are you for real, G.W?

In the recently published (in Spain) new paperback of the Poison Ivy series, I continue to see how badly its writer, G.W. Wilson, understands the way Nature and human civilization work. This time, what has shown up is her misunderstanding of civilization’s metabolism. It’s embarrassing that she puts in the mouth of a scientist character (Poison Ivy) something like this: «We should move everybody into cities and rewild as much of the rest of the planet as possible». Anyone who knows just a little about how cities work in relation to their environment can find that proposal ridiculous: if we rewild every place but the cities, how would the cities be fed? how would they get their energy and materials? The author seems ignorant of the parasitic character of cities, their absolute dependency of the surrounding territories (and since globalization, of territories thousands of miles away). And consequently she makes her character seem foolish, very far apart from what a biologist superheroinevillainess should be. With the more stories I read, I get more convinced that G.W. Wilson needs serious scientific advice on her stories, to not fall into anti-scientific common places that she might have found in some shallow and cheap environmentalism, like this of the all-out rewilding thing, nor echo «the best for Nature is to get people out of it» slogan, which is the same that some right-winger politicians once boldly told us in a parliamentary meeting here in Galicia. Shame on you, miss Wilson.