Savage Landscapes (with Cal Flyn)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem, and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econal.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is June twenty ninth, twenty twenty six, and my guest is author and journalist Cal. Flynn.

Her latest book. And the topic for today's conversation is The savage landscape, how we made the wilderness. Cal, welcome to Econ Talk. Well, thank you so much for having me.

Uh this book as I read it Is about a paradox. Wilderness is in some sense In a world of seven billion people, an illusion. The experience of wilderness is something of a paradox, after all, you're in it.

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