Jonathan Franzen On How To Get People To Care About The Environment: Show Them Birds (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

"Once that connection is made, once you see that there is some dimension of the world that you had not been aware of, you start you start paying attention to all the things around it," Franzen, whose own bird obsession didn't begin until his 40s, told host Jane Clayson. "And you realize that these birds don't just exist on air. They actually need habitat to breed and feed. And it's really a matter of getting out — of not becoming so locked in your virtual world that you forget about the real world."...
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/01/05/jonathan-franzen-birds-connection