Harvard Essay
How Raffi Cavoukian’s System of Focusing on Children Can Help Us All
by Jonathan Cathèll-Williams / Harvard
In the ebb and flow of popular environmental consciousness, my elementary school years in the early nineties constituted a crest on the wave of environmental enthusiasm. My first computer game taught me how to save the rainforests, the green vote mattered enough that the senate’s highest-profile environmentalist, Al Gore, was put on the Democratic ticket, reduce reuse recycle became a mantra, and my cartoon hero was a caped crusader, Captain Planet, whose mission was to “take polluters down to zero,” with the help of his empowered international youth sidekicks.
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