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“If I hear one more time that we must change our relationship with the natural world in order to stop our road to extinction, I am going to scream. Our beloved Beatles told us that “all we need is love,” when love is just a missing ingredient to a much longer recipe. We certainly need to operate with more love toward each other and our planet, but there is more than an attitude change and an embrace of trees that needs to be addressed. Something is standing in our way. ”
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Featured Books by Karen Shragg
Change Our stories, change our world
We need new stories. The ancient traditions and narratives under which we still operate have run their course and are no longer useful.
move upstream: a call to solve overpopulation
Our world is overpopulated. This fact lies outside of the typical activist's perspective and doesn't fit into society's dominant anthropocentric worldview.
Lucy’s hero: remembering paul wellstone
Lucy first meets Paul Wellstone when he comes to her farming community, campaigning from his green bus. When a flood devastates her family's farm, Senator Wellstone invites Lucy to the Capitol to appear at the congressional hearing where he appeals for flood relief funds for her area.