November 2021

Valuing Nature

“When a group of liberal arts students embark on a university assignment about the natural environment, no one could have quite prepared them for the bewildering array of questions and provocations to confront them in their task. What starts out as an earnest attempt to understand nature in the modern world, turns into a philosophical and practical tangle that only a good transdisciplinary education can provide. Can anyone save the day and actually start to value ‘nature’? And if they can’t, then what’s stopping them?”

Written by Rob Fish and illustrated by myself, this graphic guide to valuing nature explores the various frameworks—from economic to social to political to philosophical—that we have traditionally used to define and shape our relationship to nature.