The Nature Connection
The Nature Connection
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与自然的联系
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2010
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M. Saier
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J. Trevors;M. Saier
在过去的文章中，我们已经评论了我们共同的、共享的生物圈以及人类在其破坏中所起的作用。我们中的一个(JTT)最近注意到几个十几岁的孩子在等他们的校车，还有一些人在早上徒步上学时步行到公交站。尽管这是有史以来最辉煌的秋天之一，但大多数人都连接到了电子音乐设备上。似乎值得思考的是，还有什么音乐能比鸟儿的歌声、风在树上轻轻吹过、太阳升起，以及街道两旁硬木树上深红色的秋色更有趣。为什么摇滚乐对这些孩子来说比在学校度过一天之前听和体验大自然更重要？也许是因为大自然被认为不够性感，或者它不酷。然而，这些学生中的一些人那天将学习科学(自然)。他们的曝光只会来自老师的话和课本。将课堂材料与他们自己的个人生活和他们对自然的体验结合起来似乎要求太高了。在大多数现代民主国家，个人被认为有权自由选择，至少在那些有宪法和权利法案的国家是这样。尽管如此，这些国家的许多政府和媒体代表认为，他们有权将自己的观点强加给其他人，从而影响决策过程，使后者得出“正确”的结论(与后者自己的意识形态一致)。当然，民主不是全有或全无的理想，因为不同的“民主”国家提供不同程度和类型的民主。此外，在许多非民主国家，自由思想权利的信念并不普遍被接受，在那些没有践行真正民主原则的“民主国家”，民主理想通常仍然受到人民的重视，即使政府官员没有践行。我们的结论是，那些生活在真正民主国家的世界公民在很大程度上是少数。由于民主国家对自由思想的尊重是相当普遍的，我们很难理解任何国家或时代的人类与自然的普遍脱节。我们的建议是，我们国家的许多年轻人，也许还有许多老年人，连接上他们的iPod，开始不完全专注地观察他们生活的自然世界。由于有许多干扰，他们对大自然的观察只有部分注意力。他们可能会水空气土壤污染(2010年)205(附录1)：s85-s86 DOI 10.1007/s11270-008-9881-y
In past articles, we have commented on our common, shared biosphere and the role of humans in its destruction. One of us (JTT) recently noticed several teenagers waiting for their school buses and others walking to a bus stop on their morning trek to school. Most were plugged into their electronic music devices, despite the fact that it was one of the most glorious autumn days ever. It seemed worth pondering what music could have been more interesting than the songs of the birds, the wind gently moving through the trees, the sun rising, and the crimson colors of autumn in the hardwood trees lining the streets. Why was rock music more important to these kids than listening to and experiencing Nature before spending a day in school? Maybe because Nature wasn’t considered sexy enough, or that it wasn’t COOL. Yet some of these students would be studying science (Nature) that day. Their exposure would come from their teacher’s words and the textbook only. Integration of classroom material with their own personal lives and their experiences of Nature seems too much to ask. Individuals are considered to be entitled to free choice in most modern democratic countries, at least those with a constitution and a bill of rights. Still, many governmental and media representatives in these countries feel they have the RIGHT to impose their views on other people, thereby influencing the decision-making process so the latter people come to the “RIGHT” conclusions (in agreement with the latter’s own ideology). Of course, democracy is not an all or none ideal as different “democratic” countries provide differing degrees and types of democracy. Further, belief in the RIGHT to free thought is not generally accepted in many non-democratic countries, and in those “democracies” where true democratic principles are not practiced, the IDEAL of democracy is usually still valued by the people, even when not practiced by the governmental officials. We conclude that those world citizens who live in TRUE democracies are very much in the minority. Because of the quite universally appreciated respect for free thought in democratic countries, it is difficult for us to understand the common disconnect with Nature by humans of ANY country or age. Our suggestion is that many of the young people of our own countries, and maybe many older people as well, plugged into their ipods, start to observe the natural world in which they live, with incomplete concentration. And because of the many distractions, they observe Nature with only partial attention. They may Water Air Soil Pollut (2010) 205 (Suppl 1):S85–S86 DOI 10.1007/s11270-008-9881-y