Honorable Mention / 2024 / Press / Nature/Environmental

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  Mehdi Motamed, Iran

The relationship between humans and nature has never been this hostile and threatening until now. One of the problems caused by population growth – and the ensuing construction activities – is environmental destruction and change. One can address this issue from a “moral” and also an “aesthetic” point of view.

It is to the extent that a theory called Beauty Blindness has been proposed. This means that the price of a relative and short-term progress in any aspect of modern life is the loss of our necessary sensitivity to “beauty”, even while watching pristine nature.