Panic began to set in. I was about 400 feet away from the dive boat when, in an instant, I couldn’t move my right leg. I was moments away from flailing my arms in distress to signal for rescue.
“Global climate governance is increasingly perceived as out of touch, driven by vested interests, and running out of relevance and trust.”
While writing Silent Spring, Rachel Carson was dying of metastasizing breast cancer. Often in agony before she died, Carson asked her friends and colleagues to form an organization, the Rachel Carson Council (RCC), to carry on her work.
The food on our plate carries a story. A story of hands that harvested, lands that were tilled, and the distance it traveled to be on the shelf of that grocery store. It’s a journey from soil to shelf. A simple grain of rice may have traveled thousands of miles.
Nature Deficit Disorder was coined by Richard Louv to “serve as a description of the human costs of alienation from nature,” and now encompasses a broader movement to reconnect children and society with nature.
“This is the scientific equivalent to saying that smoking doesn’t cause lung cancer”