During live talks, we have asked our audiences a critical question: Why is nature so important to human beings? Surprisingly, people have found it extremely hard to answer this fundamental question. So we put the same question out on social media, and guess what happened? It went viral and the responses came flooding in! We have created an infographic that summarises the responses received:
Whilst you enjoy and absorb the answers that were provided on Twitter, please help us understand what’s going on.
We believe that, because we are part of nature and it’s all around us, we take it forgranted. So when asked “why is nature so important to human beings?” without time to consider the question, people find it hard to answer. However, providing time to reflect on the question, allows deep, varied and certainly meaningful responses to flow in.
Once again, this exercise shows the power of teamwork. Just look at the sheer number of responses that we have received. In fact, symbolically we stopped recording responses after receiving 201 responses. Our aim was to record 200, but quite frankly, if we had kept raising awareness of the question, we would have continued to receive a seemingly endless flow of responses!
Feel free to feed back your thoughts regarding this matter by tweeting us or contacting us by email.
Our aim is to use this exercise to help us understand the best ways to express the importance of nature, in order to mobilise people. One thing is for sure. People do have very deep and personal reasons for considering nature to be important.
