Posted by Peter Zahler, Vice President of Conservation Initiatives When I was in fourth grade, I frequently sat on the curb of our little street in upstate New York and discussed environmental destruction and the end of the world with my best friend Dave. Admittedly this probably means I was not the most fun fourth grader on the planet to be around, but interestingly I went on to a long conservation career helping to save wildlife around the world, while my friend Dave went into marine conservation, diving with the Cousteau Society among other impressive career notes. Great ambitions inspired by dreamy afternoon haunts. Photo by Sam Szapucki via Flickr I’ve been reminded of our curbside apocalypse sessions lately because of the recent UN environmental reports, first on climate change and more recently on the estimated one million species under threat of extinction in the next few decades. It’s a little hard not to be stunned by these reports into a sense of paralysis, i...