Children who play outside more likely to protect nature as adults

Post by jrnichols » Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 2:52 AM UTC

HenryBemis wrote: post #8

There is also a misconception of what "nature" is. Mega-city-dwellers going for a walk to a park and throwing their empty-soda-can in a bin, think they are "doing nature good". If they take a step back and look around they will notice that this human-made "nature" which consumes massive amounts of water, to sustain the defined/controlled (human-made) beauty, and think to themselves "oh nature is perfect, oh how well…

and then the mega city dwellers look down upon those of us that grew up in rural areas as "flyover states" and "rednecks." They might be surprised to see how environmentally conscious a lot of the "rednecks" and hunters/fisherman/etc actually are.

Post by bobwaycott » Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 3:10 PM UTC

jrnichols wrote: post #31

HenryBemis wrote: post #8

There is also a misconception of what "nature" is. Mega-city-dwellers going for a walk to a park and throwing their empty-soda-can in a bin, think they are "doing nature good". If they take a step back and look around they will notice that this human-made "nature" which consumes massive amounts of water, to sustain the defined/controlled (human-made) beauty, and think to themselves "oh nature is perfect, oh how well…

and then the mega city dwellers look down upon those of us that grew up in rural areas as "flyover states" and "rednecks." They might be surprised to see how environmentally conscious a lot of the "rednecks" and hunters/fisherman/etc actually are.

and then the flyover-state rednecks look down upon those who grew up in the mega-cities as "out of touch" and "liberal elites".

Everyone might be surprised at how similar others are if they stopped trying to find and label differences.

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