Re:Badger or Bulbasaur – have children lost touch with nature?
by nerdponx on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:45AM
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This strikes me as short-sighted and I think you're missing the point. The concern is that children don't care about nature in the first place.
You have to consider both causal directions: children don't know anything about nature because they don't care, or children don't care about nature because they don't know. This process is self-reinforcing.
Re:Badger or Bulbasaur – have children lost touch with nature?
by aaron695 on Monday October 02, 2017 @05:08AM
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The article gives no evedence that children are worse now than before. And to me it seems like absolute rubbish. The younger generation seem to care more about the environment than previous generations if anything.
The author seems to just not like the fact children like Pokemon and they don't.
People learn about what matters to them. Random animals not native to your life do not matter to you. It's really no big deal, we love to learn and our brains massively reward us for doing so especially when we actually believe it will matter. That is why it takes little effort to bring someone up to speed on flora and fauna that matters, when it really does.
Leave the rest of the concern to the biologists.