Possibilism with Michael Soule

Our guest Michael Soule, the father of conservation biology, shares his deep insights from decades working in conservation. Over the past several decades, as a society, we spend more time living through devices than connecting with tangible nature. Michael helps us to understand that connecting with nature is spending time being in and listening to the wild. That the responsibility lies with each of us and our institutions to care about the environment to get our communities, especially children, to experience nature and bring the connection to wild places into our everyday psyche and culture, and look at our future as a series of possibilities rather than despair. As a “possibilist”, Michael describes that rooted deep within us is the ability to alter our future. After all, we like to be liked, and optimism is attractive and sexy and what better way than to use these inherent traits to facilitate positive changes in society, connecting us individually and as a whole, back to nature.