One of the Best Ways to Help The Environment Is to Remedy Ourselves

Reader Contribution by Luke Maguire Armstrong
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Humanity stands at an interesting juncture at the start of the 21st Century. We overflow with knowledge and have a global middle class with unrestricted access to it. People across the world enjoy the political freedom to conduct their lives relatively unhindered. But neither this available knowledge, nor the freedom to act upon it has helped us collectively reverse a globally destructive course we have cumulatively embarked upon.

We are losing species from human disrupted environments at rates that have many leading biologists considering this age a period of mass extinction—one of only five the world has seen in 3.5 billion years of life.

None of this is happening quietly. Across the globe are tens of thousands of advocates working to set a more sustainable course. But combined, all the solutions have amounted to paltry patches, which, while inspiring on their own scale, are like mites trying to move a mountain. We know we have a big problem. But it’s one that we are collectively unable to do anything about.

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