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.
When I consider that the nobler animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, the lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, the deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc., etc., - I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed an emasculated country. I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of spring, for instance, thinking that I have the entire poem, and then to my chagrin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves and grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places.
I don't read a lot of fiction, but this was given to me as a present and I heard good things about it. What attracted me more than anything else was to the book was that it is about the intertwining relationships between humans and trees. On reading it you...