Is a Nature Deficit Depressing kids?
Worried you child may be depressed? Want to help them? Take them to a beautiful place outside. Nature heals.
Worried you child may be depressed? Want to help them? Take them to a beautiful place outside. Nature heals.
When I first saw those helicopter shots of red oil plumes staining the ocean, my only thought was: How could any animal survive in that? As a person who loves animals, this tragedy is too awful to think about. But as a doctor concerned with the prevention of human illness, I can’t help thinking about it. I can’t help but wonder: If the entire Gulf ecosystem is trashed, how will that affect us? It’s impossible to measure, let alone predict, the long-term human health effects that emerge from a major environmental catastrophe like the one we are now witnessing in…