Today the human population will increase by 250,000. We will lose 40 to 100 species, and no one knows whether the number is 40 or 100. We will lose another 72 square miles to encroaching deserts, as a result of human mismanagement and overpopulation. If today is a typical day on planet Earth, we will lose 116 square miles of rainforest, or about an acre a second. Subscriptions $10/year from 10 Shanks Pond Road, Falmouth, MA 02540.
Reprinted from Ocean Arks International’s excellent quarterly tabloid Annals of Earth, Vol. It prompted many in our office to wonder why such speeches are made at the end, rather than the beginning, of the collegiate experience.ĭavid Orr is the founder of the Meadowcreek Project, an environmental education center in Fox, AR, and is currently on the faculty of Oberlin College in Ohio. This essay is adapted from his commencement address to the graduating class of 1990 at Arkansas College.
But as environmental educator David Orr reminds us, our education up till now has in some ways created a monster. We are accustomed to thinking of learning as good in and of itself.
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