I had an email exchange yesterday with an old friend who's in the environmental education business and who is as disgusted as I am about the unprovoked carnage in Ukraine. \u00a0They wondered if our interest in the environment wasn't rather\u00a0trivial in the face of such giant issues, and\u00a0at a time when infants are being brutally killed and old people harried from their homes. \u00a0I wrote this in response:<\/p>\n
\"What you (and I and many, many others) do can\u2019t be trivial. \u00a0When all wars are ended we\u2019ll still have environmental issues to confront and resolve. \u00a0Best, perhaps, to view what we\u2019re focused on as the most fundamental of all human questions: that of how we live appropriately on our one Earth.\"<\/p>\n
How to live with each other and with the rest of nature is the most fundamental and existential of questions, and one that might attract more attention. \u00a0Of course, wars might never end given that they seem built in to who we are as a species. \u00a0It's as though we might just as well ask the tides to stop or the planet to rotate the other way. \u00a0However, maybe keeping on with the struggle to live well \u2013 finding common cause in this with others across cultures and political interests \u2013 can play a part in diminishing our more aggressive tendencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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