Grist, an on-line magazine of environmental news and commentary, features a provocative interview with Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
"After tens of thousands of years of children playing and working primarily outdoors, the last few generations have seen such interaction with nature vanish almost entirely. The implications -- for children's physical and mental health, and for the future of environmentalism -- are immense, Louv argues.
"But he stresses that there is hope -- indeed, that response to the book has him more hopeful than he was when he began writing it. After all, in a world of intractable problems and social malaise, his encouragement to parents is simple and easily achieved: Take your kids outside."
Read the interview with Richard Louv in Grist.
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