Part Five / What We Must Do Now

5.21 Mending Our Relationship with the Earth

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  1. 30 million people in 2020 were displaced Lavelle, M., ‘By 2050, 200 million climate refugees may have fled their homes. But international laws offer them little protection’, Inside Climate News, 2 November 2021, https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02112021/climate-refugees-international-law-cop26/.

  2. psychological well-being is strongly correlated with … birdsong Cockburn, H., ‘Hearing birdsong boosts human wellbeing, study confirms’, Independent, 16 December 2020, https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/birdsong-mental-health-wellbeing-study-b1774784.html.

  3. 80 per cent of the world’s remaining biodiversity IPBES, Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, ed. E. S. Brondizio et al., 2019, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3831673; International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, https://www.iwgia.org/en/.

  1. ‘spirituality may be our chiefest adaptation’ Suzuki, D., et al., The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (3rd edn, Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2007).