VISION 3
We hear about this destruction everyday in newspapers and on television, in textbooks in our schools, and magazines in our markets. We hear about buzz words like 'Global Warming' and 'habitat loss' and 'shrinking polar ice caps' and 'ground water pollution,' 'acid rain' and wars being waged to control water or oil.
A great majority of us fail to realize that our actions and decisions every day as consumers, citizens, parents, sisters and brothers, students and professionals, are all acting partners in our collective relationship with the living world. By and large we fail to make the connection between the products and services we buy and the total impact those products and services have on the greater world around us.[5] This is the great paradox of our time: we have the knowledge to be aware of and understand the importance of healthy biodiversity on earth, the delicate inter-balance between healthy human life and its dependence on the health of all of the world's living systems.
However, we continue to act and live destructively within that system, out of sync with the earth's natural processes we depend upon. We are the primary threat to our own existence. "It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will forever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is," says Bill Bryson in his popular book A Short History of Nearly Everything.[6] This seemingly obvious notion is one that strikes at the essence of Drew's interest in photography. The ability to present the relationship between people and our enviorns as a still image is a way of helping us to become more aware of our connection in the world. Awareness is indeed the first step towards change.