Our planet faces numerous environmental challenges. With increasing deforestation rates, declining ocean health, and the overall degradation of ecological health, spreading awareness and promoting environmental stewardship is essential.
The environment is not something we live in but are a part of. We risk breaking our fundamental and essential relationship with the natural world when we lose sight of this underlying principle.
Environmental stewardship begins with the appreciation that we cannot stand separate from what is happening within the environment and the impacts of our actions. We depend on nature for food, water, energy, the materials that comprise the built environment, and a habitable climate to live to thrive.
Inattention, poor policy, an unsustainable extraction-based energy economy, and a linear hyper-consumer-based marketplace challenge our environmental stewardship. The collective impact has led to overpopulation, pollution, burning of fossil fuels, and deforestation has triggered anthropogenic climate change, soil erosion, habitat destruction, poor air quality, and access to clean water.
Get the latest news, research, and analysis on the state of the environment. Learn about habitat destruction, conservation, wildlife, the health of the oceans and forests, environmental justice, and our role as environmental stewards. By actively working to protect and restore the environment, we can pave the way for a sustainable, thriving future for all life on Earth.
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