Environmental activists demanding action to stop climate change. Credit: Demotix/Birmal Sharma.
Humans celebrate natural landscapes in numerous cultural forms, from poetry and storytelling, to painting, photography and film. We cherish the green rolling hills of the British countryside, the restless Atlantic Ocean tossing boats or lapping at our rocky shores, the snowy peaks letting the last rays of sun pass between them.
How is it that we can have such strong emotional attachments when looking at nature, claim to love and appreciate it, yet be so indifferent to the destructive impact our way of living has on it?
