Children who play outside more likely to protect nature as adults

Re:Children who play outside more likely to protect nature a... by spodek on Sunday March 19, 2017 @08:35AM (#13906716)

Saying playing outside leads to protecting nature implies they take effort from the norm.

I prefer to look at playing outdoors and caring about nature as normal, so I'd restate it as "Keeping children indoors too much leads them to harm the environment more as adults."

Anyone can define "normal" for themselves how they want. I find this perspective leads to going outside more and caring more about the environment.

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Re:Children who play outside more likely to protect nature a... by mc32 on Sunday March 19, 2017 @03:42PM (#13909188)

Does this mean that the most vociferous protectors of the environment may come from farming and rural areas where kids pretty much spend the majority of their free time outdoors?

I'm not sure there is a connection, or maybe this speaks only to people who are generally removed from nature and only see it in spurts?

In any event, the more conservationist (within reason) the better --just not sure these results mean much.

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Re:Children who play outside more likely to protect nature a... by rorykoehler on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:46AM (#13913616)

I find this with much in the mainstream media. So much so that I created a browser plugin to change some terms that really irked me (anti-austerity for example).

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