New York Times Magazine Natural Happiness: The Way We Live Now
Friday April 24th, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19wwln-lede-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
Why should we care about nature? Should we care about it for its own sake — or for our sake, because it happens to make us happy or healthy? These might not seem like the brightest questions. Few people need convincing that the destruction of rain forests, the mass extinction of species and the melting of the ice sheets in Greenland would all be very bad things. Do we really need to list the reasons?
