Bangor Daily News: Only an appreciation of nature as a collection of specific threatened habitats, rather than as an abstract thing that is dying, can avert a complete denaturing of the world.
This observation by writer Jonathan Franzen nicely captures the challenge of understanding climate changes impacts on nature. As Franzen also notes, climate change is so big that its everybodys -- and nobodys -- problem. To initiate change, we need to understand its impacts on a human scale.
In an effort to communicate...