“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” - Aldo Leopold
Several decades later, ecologists and many more of us no longer witness such wounds in solitude.
Instead, millions of people share evidence every day of how the behaviour of the richest countries, the richest corporations and a wealthy minority of the population has created unsustainable rates of climate change and biodiversity loss and climate transformation.
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