John Hawthorne - “Fighting For Love in The Century of Extinction”

 

Outside Reading #1

        Today I read “Fighting For Love in The Century of Extinction”, it covers climate change and loss of biodiversity. A large portion of what I read seemed like it was appealing to people who hesitate to believe in climate change. From what I’ve learned in classes, literature, and trial and error, the question for many people isn’t whether or not to believe, it’s about why they should care, that’s the start, even if they believe it’s real it doesn’t mean anything if they don’t find it important. I also notice that many of the books in the library that cover biodiversity and conservation take an economic perspective, that we should care about the planet because it’s a quantifiable resource that fuels our economy. That’s just so ridiculously backwards to me, I understand that people find incomprehensible topics hard to support, but how do people become so disconnected from nature that the only way they’d conserve is if they’re gaining something from it. It definitely says something about the monetary society we’ve cultivated, but it did give good advice on speaking about climate change and conservation in laymen terms, in ways that relate back to the individual.

9/23

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