Humanizing the World

Walt McLaughlin
5 min readFeb 22, 2024

Is this really in our best interest?

Photo by Umet Ale on Unsplash

For most of human history, the name of the game has been survival. Widely scattered bands of Homo sapiens struggled for existence during the Ice Age and the years that followed, just like every other life form. There were times back then when the fate of our kind seemed in question. But oh no, not any more…

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Walt McLaughlin

Philosopher of wildness, writing about the divine in nature, being human, and backcountry excursions.