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[Martin Naylor <martinwnaylor@yahoo.com.au>]

Good Idea,  6 billion people running around the bush, if we could get 
everybody living under ground, sea city's and space stations, bulldoze the 
city's and towns, we'd have a big landscape to play with 

"Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net> wrote:   
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.

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