Conservation Through Conversation - A Provocation
Daniel John Rough · 2021
The world is in the midst of an ecological crisis. Biodiversity is plummeting, the ice caps are melting, rainforest wildlife is being slaughtered wholesale for palm oil plantations, and we’re consuming far too much of the planet’s resources. The volume of carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere, warming our planet, and destroying the environment, is unsustainable. CUI research won’t matter if humanity itself can’t provide its side of the conversation. This is everyone’s problem, and everyone can be part of the solution, whether it’s eating less meat or not binning our recyclables. Can we, as CUI researchers, do anything more specific? I think we can, and should, be making the conversation about conservation.