We cannot succeed if we hide behind language that tells a bizarre story about how the very planet we are in the process of destroying is simultaneously going to save us. It is perverse and delusional. Opinion by Patricia Hardie
” behind my house, which I helped protect with a local land trust and others in my community. It is my spiritual solace, and I am a big believer in nature protection. Sometimes, I notice the unusual changes happening: the frog eggs in the pond that are hit by an unexpected frost; a bird that we don’t usually see this far north, its natural cues off-kilter due to earlier and warmer temperatures.
Such nature-based solutions — for example, protecting wetlands to ensure they continue to absorb carbon or mitigate flooding — imply we can turn to the natural world for an answer, or a way out of the harm we are doing to it. But the existential crossroads we are at requires a fundamental shift in the way we see and behave in the world.
However, we are distracting ourselves from the single and most pressing issue: to limit global fossil fuel emissions as quickly as possible. Since we have built our lives around these fuels, that puts us in a massive predicament. We are squirming.
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