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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Once in a blue moon - actually far less frequently - I come across an idea that is so extraordinary that it stops me in my tracks. Raffi Cavoukian's vision, Child Honouring, is such an idea. It is startling, and eminently laden with possibilities.

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