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An Old Forest Like Me

The rainforest is generous. It has always been there for us. It supplies us with wood from its trees and medicine from its plants. It even allows us escape into its beauty. It has watched us leave time and again, but we always come back. We know how to make things, amazing things, so why would we need an old forest anymore? We breathe air, and the rainforest makes air. If we lose our forests, we lose our climate.

Goodbye Guilt

Goodbye guilt; hello cooperation, integration and meaningful action. This abstract emphasizes that people are far more inclined to be proactive about climate change if it is framed as a collective issue, and not a personal responsibility. Instead of focusing attention on the individual contribution to climate change, and all the guilt and grief that can accompany that realization, it makes more sense, and has a bigger impact, to represent it as a collective issue.