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Mind-shift needed

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"Our planet is at a crossroads and we have the opportunity to decide the path ahead." We recently watched an episode called Into the Wilderness from the Planet Earth: The Future series (2006) and our professor asked us to reflect on the series and our current environmental challenges. Well since the doccie was produced in 2006, and already then they were warning us about environmental challenges, which in 2018 we're still not addressing - I of course had a whooooole lotta say! _____________________________________ I do wonder if the majority of society hasn’t reached a “saturation point” of actually caring about the environment, similar to what I’ve noticed about the ongoing rhino poaching in South Africa. When it first started, everybody was on board and eager to make a difference, but as the poaching continued and other crisis’ emerged, most people just moved on or thought of it as somebody else’s problem. With the release of WWF’s Living Planet Report, I j...