Excellent article again and coincidentally we had an environmental discussion this morning with our daughter-in-law focusing on sustainability. I know it seems to be a bit of a catch word right now but it is mandatory. I love your sentence ” if we affect Nature we affect ourselves”. Thanks Barry
Marine biologist Bill Graham writes some excellent blog posts (latest example) on the subject of what might broadly be called ecoliteracy or systems thinking, concepts developed many years ago now by Fritjof Capra and others. I think that one of the problems we have is that neither of these terms has immediate impact on more than the minds of those interested in these things. That be as it may, this is important work.
Bill has the admirable aim of encouraging educators to bring about a generation of children that really understand the interconnectedness of ourselves with all of nature, and ‘think sustainability’.
Here are just a few ideas quoted from this post.
“…much of humanity does recognize our dependency on Nature. In our “me” societies, our hubris suggests that we can control Nature. This arrogance prevents us from admitting that, while Nature can survive without us, we cannot…
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