What the
Raven said
What will it take to convince a few billion people that destroying
wilderness, natural habitats and our fellow creatures is not only
harmful to humankind, but also irrational, morally repugnant, and
instinctively insane? How can we give people who are completely
disconnected from nature a sense of what they're missing, what they've
lost, forgotten? I don't believe any of this can come from reading
books, watching nature documentaries or trips to parks, farms and
summer camps.
This connection and knowledge can only come from first-hand experience.
The challenge is that there's not much quiet, uncivilized nature left
to experience, anywhere in the world. When it's gone, the world that's
left, stuffed wall-to-wall with many times more people than it can
sustainably support, will be, despite all its people and buildings and
cars and inventions and noise, a lonely, barren and empty place....
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how to save the world]
