At the Climate Forward live event. Rainn Wilson, an actor, environmentalist and a star of “The Office,” read from his essay on how to connect environmentalism with spirituality. He said that in order to address climate change, we must transform our relationship with nature. “We need to value nature as profoundly sacred,” he said. “Spiritual, even.”

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