[PCA] ARTICLE: We do not want to “cure plant blindness” we want to grow plant love

[Prescott, Leah]

From: *Plants, People, Planet* New Phytologist Trust
By: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Sara Kuebbing, Rebecca S. Barak, Molly
Bletz, Joan Dudney, Bonnie M. McGill, Mallika A. Nocco, Talia Young,
Rebecca K. Tonietto
July 18, 2019

"We have a duty to conserve plants for the health of current and future
generations. To do that, we, as a community of scientists, need to move
plants from the background and into the foreground of people's hearts and
minds. Effective movements need a clear, unifying rallying cry. We have
made a decision not to use “curing plant blindness” as ours. Instead, we
would like to encourage an honest and inclusive discussion about the
disenfranchising and exclusionary term 'plant blindness.'"

Read more: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.10062
-- 
Leah Prescott
Seeds of Success
National Collection Curator (Contractor)
202-912-7232

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