Published: 10/3/2019 6:30:18 AM (Last week, we asked readers this question: “What was your watershed moment for the issue you are most passionate about?” We received one response, and here it is.)I am in awe of the complexity and beauty of nature. However, I am also worried about the fate of our planet, and the path we are headed on as we frack, deforest and contaminate our land, pump greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, and dump toxins into and otherwise despoil our waterways. Perhaps I am late to the party, in terms of acting on my concerns, but that doesn’t mean I have not been passionate about our environment for a very long time.My watershed moment about just how precious our natural environment is came when I was a teen. After a chance encounter with an extraordinary organization in the Southwest, the Cottonwood Gulch Foundation, my dad decided that he wanted his kids to be exposed to a world very different from the one he had known. He sent each of us, in turn, to a place without running water or electricity, seven miles down an unpaved road outside a tiny town in northwestern New Mexico. This was the base… Read full this story
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