America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not a Coincidence

Re:America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not... by crazygringo on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:18PM (#38258143)

> All of them if they reduced their television and Internet consumption.

Huh?

Those are in the evening. I can't pop into nature for an hour and a half after dinner the way I can pop into a TV show. It's like two hours away, if I plan the trains right.

TV and internet has literally nothing to do with it. My ability to schedule an entire Saturday or Sunday does. And not have it pour rain (or be during a snowing freezing month).

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Re:America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not... by kjkjadksj on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:38PM (#38258794)

You can experience nature just walking around your neighborhood. Even if its in the middle of a city. There’s no need to go full John Muir. Trees a plenty everywhere. Birds and squirrels. Either way, much better to be putting those legs to use than to sit.

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Re:America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not... by crazygringo on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:27AM (#38265447)

You and I clearly live in different neighborhoods. The trees planted in the sidewalk of what is otherwise my concrete jungle does not constitute "nature" by any stretch of the imagination -- not any more than my indoor plants do. And the number of birds and squirrels is roughly zero -- I've got to walk half an hour to a park for any of those.

I love walking around my neighborhood but it's exercise and walking -- it's certainly not nature. Don't confuse the two.

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