{"id":15111,"date":"2012-11-16T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15111"},"modified":"2012-11-16T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:02:09","slug":"love-thy-nature-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/love-thy-nature-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for Environmentalists to Get Emotional? Love Thy Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aren’t environmentalists always emotional? Maybe overly so? No doubt, some think that… but we’ve also convinced ourselves (or, at least, I’ve convinced myself) that rational argument about the benefits of nature work best for bringing along people who may not share our passion. Let’s talk about “natural resources<\/a>” and “environmental economics<\/a>” so others don’t think we’re just hippy dippy treehuggers who don’t get the practical side of the argument.<\/p>\n

I think there’s a lot of wisdom in that approach… but as filmmaker\u00a0Sylvie Rokab notes in the video below, “What we fall in love with, we protect.” Rokab has been at work on the documentary Love The Nature<\/em><\/a>, which argues for the benefits of rekindling our emotional connections to the natural world. Take a few minutes to hear her explanation:<\/p>\n