On Preserving Our Planet
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Video clip of Kathy Karn by Alison Coates
Anyone who cares about preserving our planet—and there are many of us, hundreds of thousands, millions of us, who care... Any way we can share the awe and wonder of the world and engage people—then I think it is inevitable that we, the humans that are the only species that have devastated the planet—then I think we’ll get more people on board. I think people will raise the consciousness; I think people will care more.
I would love to change the mind of the trophy hunter. I don’t know if that’s possible, but really the trophy hunter is not the most important one. What’s important are the people who are on the ground. That each of us, wherever we are living on our piece of the planet, that we take care of our own space. If we all did that, I think it would give us all a sense of purpose and meaning. The world would improve. This has been shown time and time again. When we get out of the way, nature recovers. It does it naturally. It’s how the whole system of creation works.
It’s only when we are greedy or out of balance or lost... When we forget that we are part of it, that we are part of creation, not here to control creation. It matters because we are at a tipping point. It’s serious. And people like Greta Thunberg and Jane Goodall are helping us remember that if we lose this, it’s serious.
In my lifetime, half the world’s species have disappeared – in my lifetime! So, what does that mean for my grandchildren and great grandchildren? They might say to me, “you actually got to see an elephant? What was that like?” I don’t want that to happen. “You actually got to sit at the edge of a stream and drink the water because it was clean?” It’s like we are in paradise and we’re trashing it. I am horrified.
I have lots of hope. And when I’m in a natural wild place, then I remember. I remember that I need to think more consciously. That I need to make more conscious choices. Yeah. I think we learn more through delight and awe and wonder than we do through lectures about how nasty we are and how stupid we are. So that’s the gate I want to come through.
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