Just a short post. I was just thinking about the terms 'Saving the world' or 'Saving the environment' and asked myself, does the environment really need saving? Sure, humans are having a great impact on the environment, enough for the term 'anthropocene' to be used to describe the current time period, but is the environment really that helpless? Over the course of the earth's history, there has been much more inhospitable conditions on earth as compared to what we have now. Yes, there has been significant climate change now but nature has always had a way to adapt and thrive in the harshest of conditions.

I believe using the terms mentioned above is inaccurate and is not useful in the cause of mitigating climate change. A more appropriate term would be 'Saving ourselves'. Why? While nature is the master of surviving, the same cannot be said of humans. The rising sea levels, pollutants, and overall drastic environmental change are causing some populations to struggle especially in the less developed countries. When we move forward with solutions to environmental change, these groups of people must always be in our thoughts as they bear the brunt of environmental change yet do not receive any substantial benefits.