permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Nature Deficit Disorder - "Humans are no longer cavemen trying to survive in the 
wild"

Today's discussion on PBS' Dianne Rheem Show concerns modern society's estrangement from the out-of-doors; a lifestyle 
involving mostly living indoors in a house or apartment on a lot with little or no yard or a yard with little natural 
diversity and a manicured lawn and landscape planting.

The latter comment was read from an email the author Dianne interviewed received from someone objecting to his campaign 
to get people outdoors and into the woods and fields more often, a mindset that might espouse "I can acquire all the 
Nature I need in my life with my digital camera".

- maybe there will be an audio tape of this online. The book reviewed is "The Last 
Child In the Woods".

Permaculture teachers and activists will certainly have their work cut out 
for them for some time to come.