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title: "Environmental Issues"
date: "2016-09-16T13:53:06+01:00"
modified: "2025-08-06T10:22:16+01:00"
url: "https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/res_perspective/environmental-issues/"
post_id: 939
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# Environmental Issues

Why might humanists care about the environment? Is the natural world only important because of its use to human beings?

[Download Issues perspective](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/09/Environmental-Issues-perspective.pdf)

[Interview with former Co-Leader of the Green Party, Siân Berry](https://humanists.uk/2023/01/17/one-life-one-planet-humanist-climate-action-interview-former-co-leader-of-the-green-party-sian-berry/)

[Humanist Climate Action](https://humanists.uk/humanist-climate-action/)

[Humanist Heritage article on the history of humanist environmentalism](https://heritage.humanists.uk/articles/a-brief-history-of-humanist-environmentalism/)