IT IS SAID that we are entitled to hold any opinions we choose, but the same liberty does not apply to our use of facts. Whatever your opinions, there are four facts that will shape the world in which you live.
The first is that we spend upwards of 95% of our time in houses, cars, malls and offices. We are becoming an indoor species increasingly shut off from sky, land, forests, waters and animals. Nature, as a result, is more and more of an abstraction for us. The problem is most severe for children who now spend up to eight hours each day before either a television or computer screen and less ...
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