the Future of the planet — in the hands of the younger generation.
Today our planet is experiencing not the best times. Its surface overflowing with garbage, the air temperature is constantly increasing, glaciers are melting and the ocean level is getting higher. Yeah, if developments follow the same course, humanity survives. That is why each of us should start to try to sustain contact with nature — the first thing you can just stop throw garbage on the ground. But, most importantly, careful use of nature, it is important to train the younger generation. And this, according to scientists, it is important to strengthen their "communication with nature", allowing as often as possible to go to trips with overnight stay, fishing and other outdoor activities. It is important that children have the opportunity to stay alone with nature. The adult supervision is definitely needed, but excessive intervention in this matter to anything. All these conclusions were made in a study conducted by researchers from the U.S. state of North Carolina.
The scientific Results were published in science . Within its framework, the researchers conducted a survey among 1285 children from North Carolina, ages 9 to 12 years. Scholars interested in how often children are in nature, what they were doing and what they think about the state of the environment in General. According to one of the authors of the scientific work of Katherine Stevenson (Kathryn Stevenson), children who are often in nature, there is always something there to do. Fishing, hunting, gathering edible berries and mushrooms — all of this applies to active recreation. However, the respondents, who chose more private lessons in nature like the fishing, expressed more serious concern about the current state of the environment.
One of the advantages of a private residence in the countryside, which we stress, is that children who have a strong connection with nature, are more likely to want to take care of the environment in the future, explained Katherine Stevenson.
It is Worth noting that the results of the study do not say that children can be left unattended. Their actions are very important to control because of their inexperience they run into dangerous animals to eat poisonous plants and get many . The younger generation, it is important to familiarize with the environment, because, as scientists put it, "today they are more versed in the varieties of pokémon, and not species of animals and plants". With all this, children need to be given time to stay alone with nature.
Scientists believe that fishing and other outdoor activities improve the "harmony with nature"
That spending time in nature makes people care about her, it was also proved in the course of scientific work, the results of which were published in . If you believe the statistics, people who have chosen nature-related career, treat the environment with more care than others. You might think that with nature are only related to the career of biologist, Forester, and so on. But ardent defenders of nature, there are many fishers and hunters. Because most of them help to maintain the balance of populations in the animal world, reducing the number of species that pose a risk to endangered animals.
Generally, being in nature, scientists see only advantages. In the beginning of 2020 my colleague Love Sokovikova told that even ten minutes of being in the fresh air can significantly reduce the level of anxiety and concern. that if a person is able to stay outdoors for 20-30 minutes a day at least three times a week, their blood markedly decreases the level of cortisol known as the stress hormone.
But unfortunately, if you frequently stay outdoors a lot of people forget about the environment and throw garbage directly on growing grass. The result is that parks and forests are polluted with plastic bottles, bags and other debris, which will fully decompose after a thousand years. It is noteworthy that humanity is beginning to hurt nature for a long time — scientists have evidence that sabotage was involved in even our ancestors. And here .
