I’m a teacher and I meet kids who don’t know what plants are. These kids have no idea where plants grow, what they eat, what they breathe and they’re afraid to touch the ground. But they have no problem clicking or talking on mobile phones, which pollute and emit radiation. Kids here know how to pound away at the computer from the first grade and that’s a problem. If kids can’t prepare food – let alone grow food – what kind of people will kids become? They’ll be detached from family, community and certainly from their neighbors.

When you live close to the earth, you become more modest. When you work in high-tech industries you aren’t modest at all; you’re very high up; you rule the world. So let’s put that back where it belongs. We have smart people who create wonderful, life-improving inventions but let’s channel those inventions toward positive needs.