The illusion of indoor lives

The American relationship with the natural world has brought us to the brink.

We’ve reached a pivotal teaching moment as American economic, political and social conflict have become inseparable from global environmental concerns and crises. The state of our environment is a reflection of our national character: our struggles with greed, disinformation, intolerance, and injustice are reflected in imbalance, pollution, degradation and loss in the natural world. Modern society, however, is often either physically removed from nature…