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WE CAN ALTER THE COURSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE NOW — Here’s How
Everyday, worldwide reports grow dimmer.
From a 75% decline in flying insect biomasss to between .01 to .10% of all species becoming extinct each year, today we know that our destruction of nature is also rapidly eroding the world’s capacity to provide food and water to billions of people.
The United Nations reports that our use of natural resources has tripled in 40 years and, for the first time in human story, more than half of the world’s population is located in urban areas. In order to work towards solutions for climate change and habitat loss, we must understand the roots of what got us into this predicament.
I think, therefore I am.
In 1637, Rene Descartes wrote, “Cogito, ergo sum.” Credited as the first thinker to emphasize reason for developing natural science, Cartesian theory also asserts that each individual is a liberal, autonomous subject. It is the separation of intelligence (mind) from the experience (body.) Thus, the duality between Earth and man, and mind over matter, was born.
Nearly four hundreds years later, and we are raised in homes cut off from the natural world, where temperature and light are controlled and, where, for the most part, we do not…
