{"ops":[{"insert":"I am delighted that so many of you were able to join us for our webinar entitled "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Thinking Critically About the Earth’s Preservation."},{"insert":" If you missed the webinar, view the full video presentation here:\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"blue","link":"https://community.criticalthinking.org/watchEmbeddedVideo.php?id=310"},"insert":"https://community.criticalthinking.org/watchEmbeddedVideo.php?id=310"},{"insert":"\n\nYou can also pass along this excerpt from the video to your colleagues, family and friends interested in learning how the tools of critical thinking are essential to working through issues focused on the earth’s preservation:\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"blue","link":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZTbhf5u8wc"},"insert":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZTbhf5u8wc"},{"insert":"\n\nIn the full webinar, I focus briefly on how the elements of reasoning and intellectual standards help us reason more effectively through ecological questions. Then I demonstrate how when dealing with any complex question, we need to unpack that question by delineating and then working through the subquestions that need to be addressed before we can answer the broader question we began with. So, for instance, if we begin with the question: "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"How can we save the earth?,"},{"insert":" or "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"how can we best preserve and restore the earth’s resources?,"},{"insert":" we will first need to give the appropriate level of precision to the question. Then we need to determine the domains of thought within which we need to think to address the original complex question. Then we are in a position to delineate the questions we need to answer within each domain before we can effectively address our original question. For more on domains of questions, see our "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Asking Essential Questions Guide"},{"insert":", pp. 17-18.\n"}]}