Leopold “Thinking like a Mountain”

Set-Up (premise): Consider the ways in which our ideas and thoughts about ourselves and the world have impacted its natural systems. Human thought--shaped and conditioned by our societies, cultures, belief systems, and so on-- plays a major role in supporting the actions and behaviors, the economic systems and industries, that have led up to the global environmental crisis.

Prompt: How can we think "like a mountain" (critically, ecocentrically) in order to solve the environmental problems we face in 2020?

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