Experts Agree: Reality is Better Than Virtual Reality.
This Associated Press article covers some of the dire ideas described in February's Eco Article.
Apparently, people don't want to go outside anymore.
Forging a connection to the natural world is key to developing a sense of environmental justice, most eco-experts agree. This idea is a big deal in the environmental field, as evinced by the growing importance of books like Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv.
Oliver R. W. Pergams and Patricia A. Zaradic, authors of the recent study that is the inspiration of my eco-article, have a word to denote our culture's indifference to the outdoors: videophilia. Check out their website, videophilia.org, and let me know what you think.
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A friend I work with took his kids West. The kids loved Las Vegas. Then they went to the Grand Canyon. The kids unanimously agreed, "Dad, it's a hole in the ground, lets go back to Vegas!"
It's time to fire all National Park employees and leave the Great Outdoors to the occasional kook who wants to actually see such a thing. Why waste my tax dollars staffing abandoned geological formations?
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