In 1992, during the Rio Earth Summit, I was a 23 year old student at Manchester Polytechnic in my final year studying Environmental Management, and co-running Friends of the Earth Rainforest Group. We stood outside the DIY stores with our banners, letting people know about the destruction of the rainforests! It’s hard to imagine that this was 20 years ago.
Today it seems, we aren’t much wiser in our behaviour and understanding of the importance of nature – why is this?