YELLOWSTONE IS THE WORLD

Yellowstone mirrors Earth’s potential. 

Its wilderness offers glimpses of the American Serengeti’s past. Thriving valleys. Thundering herds. Filled with life. Positively wild.

Yellowstone stands as a living memorial to the past’s great wilds. It may be the last in a great line of vast, fruitful lands humans knew thousands of years ago. It serves as a beacon of future hope. It serves as a bellwether for future extinction.

Yellowstone is our potential. Will we listen to what it needs? Will we protect it and all its inhabitants? Will we protect just enough for our vacation? Will we only protect enough to ensure we survive?

Yellowstone is Earth’s power; full, uncompromising energy capable of more death and destruction than the world’s bombs combined. Yellowstone can destroy all we worked to protect if it chooses. It can destroy us if the laws of physics and nature align. Mercifully, it only reminds us of its power one geyser eruption at a time. But are we so arrogant to think we control it?

Its residents, no matter how wild, are controlled by us. Its land lives at our mercy, despite our dereliction. And yet, despite our potential, we live at Yellowstone’s mercy. How much will the land withstand before it rebels? At what point will its fire and fury rise from the depths and tell us enough is enough?

Yellowstone is the world. The world is Yellowstone.