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Reddit mentions of Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education (Nature Literacy Series, Vol. 1)

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Found 1 comment on Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education (Nature Literacy Series, Vol. 1):

u/IggySorcha ยท 7 pointsr/TrueReddit

Everybody pretty much covered it from the top-down data-driven side. Specifically for me I focus on local-level conservation efforts and teaching people how everything is intertwined with our everyday. I highly focus on environmental empathy, because how are we going to get people to make a concerted effort to go green, much less keep up with the information, unless they care about the environment (related, I also focus on green actions that are good for the wallet, like making homemade cleaning fluids, not idling your modern car, and turning off lights you're not using).

For example throwing a cigarette on the ground could

  • a) individually cause a local fire if it's not out and blows closer to some brush

  • b) many discarded cigarettes can pile up and poison the ground or water. The plastic filters can be eaten by animals and the chemicals leech into systems.

    Note how the ground near roads in general doesn't fare well, but especially where you see a lot of cigarette butts at red lights. Ground erodes there as less plants are able to grow. More and more pollution ends up going down the drains along roads. Our natural water filters (aka marshes) work overtime and eventually cannot support life as well. Animals die of accidental ingestion or getting trapped in litter and no longer exist to fill the niche they served, and nothing evolved fast enough to fill that niche instead (this is the problem with exacerbated climate change in general-- nature can't replace itself fast enough). This causes the marsh to die off even faster. Eventually either local citizens end up with unsafe to drink water, or their taxes/water bill goes up to account for the increased filtration needed.

    My favorite three books to explain at its most basic level this issue as well as how to teach yourself and children conservation efforts:

  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Well known book that really birthed the environmental movement. It's a little harsh, but hard hitting in a way that adults need to see how everything connects in local and global environmental policy)

  • Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv (focuses on the physical and mental health benefits spending time in nature has, especially for children)

  • Beyond Ecophobia by David Sobel (discusses how many environmentalists go too far with the fire and brimstone attitude about climate change, and how that's turned people off to the issue and spawned more climate denial or misunderstandings. This cliff notes version was largely what caused me to shift to teaching almost exclusively local-level conservation issues)


    Not really sure how being an independent is qualifier for anything....everyone should do their research and climate issues should not be a partisan thing. I am too independent but even if climate change were not a real and dangerous issue, I'd still rather switch to things that will produce less pollution so my lungs can breathe easier and my water taste better. I'd still care about saving an endangered species that's dying due to our own actions of overhunting or deforestation, tenfold if it is the sole provider of a niche.

    PS- Sorry you're getting downvoted. :(