Tag: <span>environmentalism</span>

Misguided Misanthropy: Why the “Humans are the Virus” Mindset is Damaging to the Environmental Movement

We’ve all seen the tweets lately: “Humans are the real virus!” “The earth is healing in our absence” and so on. Their message is clear: humans are a plague on the earth and the current COVID-19 pandemic is a form of reckoning. Not only are some of these tweets just plain wrong, …

Local Money for a Global Environment

Getting Milk? I don’t cry over spilled milk, but I’m not ashamed to admit that trying to navigating my way to the milk isle during peak shopping hours brings me awfully close to tears. Especially right before a snowstorm. It’s not an ordeal I take up willingly, but today we …