Richard Kahn's "Towards Ecopedagogy"

“Thus, our moment is new – never before have the collected mass beings of the planet Earth been so thoroughly threatened with extinction as they are now and never before have so many of us raised this problem consciously and desperately together in the hopes of transforming society towards a better, more peaceable kingdom as a result.” This quote, pulled from Richard Kahn’s “Towards Ecopedagogy” really stood out to me because Kahn summarized the primary reason for the earth’s critical condition. He brings up the fact that in an attempt to improve our lives, we have done the opposite by degrading our home and treating it so poorly we are now threatened with extinction. While our appetite for expansion and growth may temporarily enhance our standard of living, in the long run, it will be our downfall. I believe Kahn is being rather negative with this point of view, but it is a possibility nonetheless. He asserts that educating society is the only hope for a sustainable world; this may be true, however, I feel that not everyone needs to understand environmental preservation, just be active in contributing to it.