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Book Review:  Nature Connection:  Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature.
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Imagine being on the Titanic tourist submarine right now.  The world watching with bated breath hoping and praying that the people trapped way below the ocean's surface with limited air are found and rescued.  It’s yet again, another real-time, real-life drama playing out before our very eyes.  Just as the images of orange-tinged smoke engulfed New York City and other areas in the United States due to wildfires miles away in Canada this month.  All reminders of how important the ability to breathe is to our survival.
 
As it turns out, trying to live without a reverent relationship with our natural world, is like trying to survive without breathing.  Dr. Mile’s Richardson newly published book, Nature Connection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature is a much-need dose of oxygen to aid not only the health and well-being of humans but the health of our planet.

Richardson skillfully weaves several recent studies into a relentless manifesto declaring that having a relationship, not just visiting or recreating, with our natural world is essential to humans' well-being and the more biodiverse the setting, the more it supports our mental health.  This comes at a time when biodiversity is plunging.  What Richardson does not include in his book is the big elephant in the room: the human population has been growing rapidly over the past several years.  The author does include how the shift in our thinking and relationship with the natural world has been a catalyst for our destruction of plants, soil, wildlife, water, and more.
 
So how do we begin to restore our home, planet Earth?  Richardson outlines a formula, based on recent studies, that needs to be integrated into policy, practice, and education immediately to turn this modern-day Titanic situation around.  
 
Although most of this book references situations in the United Kingdom, I found it very pertinent to what is going on in the United States also.  Richardson’s book joins the likes of other nature relationship-promoting books such as Blue Mind by Wallace J. Nichols and Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong.  Each of these authors calls on us to establish and cultivate a loving relationship with our natural world.  This is a bold step in the world of science which traditionally dictates keeping emotion out of the narrative.  Yet emotion is the biggest motivator for behavior.
 
Nature Connection:  Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature is an essential read for leaders, policymakers, educators, healthcare professionals, and anyone else looking for the path to a planet where we can live well and in harmony with our natural world.

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