By Guest Blogger Cheryl Lewis

Note from Andrea: During the spring and summer of 2019, I’ve turned over my Medium column to students from my third-year undergraduate course at the University of Toronto, “The Environmental Imagination.” (For background on how and why I think we need to teach environmental studies to English majors see “Who Do We Think We Are? Fighting Climate Change by Changing Our Minds.”) In the class, we spend a lot of time talking about what, if anything, distinguishes us — humans — from the rest of the natural world. In this post, Cheryl describes how the humans in her…

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