What is our relationship towards the environment and why should we care about it?
In the way we have come to use the automobile, I think we have lost many things - clean air, health, nature, green spaces, and a little bit of our soul. This is my call for us to banish mass private ownership of automobiles from our cities.
We need a change in our culture to enable us to live in an environmentally attuned way, here are my ideas on how we need to change
Here are some of the changes we all need to make in our lives to stop being footsoldiers in the war against the natural world
Introduction We exist within an evolutionary reality; it is hard to overstate the importance of this fact. We must understand what we are to help us become what we can be. Every facet of the being that is comprehending these words is the result of billions of years of the evolutionary process. You are the direct result of a "successful" line of ancestors stretching back at least a billion years, a line that started out with the simplest possible organisms, and now comes to you: an individual capable of intricate creation. This is not to say there was necessarily a...
The animals in the human food system are one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. A lot of different studies have come up with different figures as to what percentage of emissions are attributable to livestock; here I discuss them in the context of the world and Australia specifically.
At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour"
Saving the planet begins at breakfast
Safran Foer is a wonderful writer. Whether you agree with or understand the tact he takes in a given piece, it is always well put and stylistically elegant. For him to take on a topic like our diet and its relationship to climate change was exciting. As he shows clearly...