It is widely acknowledged that exposure and contact with nature is relaxing, and boosts our immune function.
However, we are faced with a human induced climate change that keeps morphing from one catastrophe to another.
Not a single part of the world has been spared. It is because we ignore nature in our developmental planning.
There comes a time such as we have now to take stock, and to change tact when there is still a window of opportunity.
We have to start planning for our social-economic progress with nature as the most reliable benchmark.
It is the only way to heal our degraded environment, and heal ourselves in the process.