We are all deeply affected by the mere possibility of a dying world, a world that many of us hardly take time to notice as we go about our busy lives. As Bill Prescott noted in the preceding article, facing global climate change is not simply a question of finding solutions. It's a question of understanding who we think we are, and what we think the world is. Here, Kari Berger reminds us that to be human is to be an animal - and that the world is richer than we know.
Days lengthen and shorten around the work day.
Stars, clouds, sun, rain pour their energies onto my shoulders as I come and go. What touches me usually has to do with human cultures, plants, the lives of animals - things that tend to be put in the realm of anthropology or natural history but are in the realm of the heart and soul for me. Those things have more lasting power in my life than the daily news. But these days, when billionaires are no longer very rare, this measure is antiquated. The concept of buying a piece of Earth did not strike me as ludicrous then.