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Authors problems with our world today:
Last child in the Woods by: Richard Louv
Richard describes how he fears today's college kids will be the last children in the woods for good.
The main point of my book is to describe nature deficiency in our world today.
America so far has been described as three frontiers
Thank you for sitting through my presentation, hope you guys liked it and hope you read the book. :)
all my information in this prezi is from the book Last Child in the Woods by: Richard Louv
The First being the time of Louis and Clarke
Impacts from modernization:
The second being the time where almost everyone owned a farm.
And the third being our current generation. The time where technology is more important then the outdoors.
One child being interviewed was asked which do you like better the outdoors or indoors? why? And responded "Indoors because that's where all the plugs are."
A British study discovered that the average 8 year old kid was better able to identify characters from the Japanese game Pokemon then native species from their own community like great oak or an otter.
The building of condos and apartments don't have any outdoor space for kids to run around and explore forcing them to stay inside.
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He claims that one of the main reasons you don't see kids playing and running through the woods is that today society drives them out by the fear of their child potentially getting hurt, comes from the parents , saftey and lawsuit hazards from community and then the fears of social media.
He fears that today's college kids will be the last children of the woods meaning that after them there will be no kids you see running through the woods building forts and climbing trees and it being an ordinary thing.
Los Angles is the only city in the world with mountain lion support groups.
He also believes that "nature inspires creativity in a child by demanding visualization and the full use of senses." while on the other hand he later explains a tv does not.
If continued at this rate, in 25 years the Chesapeake bay area alone will have consumed more land than in the previous three and a half centuries.
53,000 acres of land are developed in the Chesapeake Bay area (Maryland inner harbor and surrounding areas) every year.
Today the only animals kids have ever known are their pets or other animals they see at zoos an aquariums.
Another example would be About a math teacher who lived in a town full of woods and canyons and claimed he loved it there because you would always see kids playing outside and at school you would hear of their adventures, until one day when the towns authoritative adults made the kids take down their tree houses because they were a fire hazard and the tiny dams they'd build to float mini boats down could cause a severe flood. So in response the parents put basketball hoops in their driveways for the kids to play with but then again came the community association to remind everyone that the putting up of basketball hoops violated the slip they had signed to live there so the hoops went down and the kids had no choice but to play inside.
For example the book tells us about a girl who with her friends were always outside at the end of her street climbing the trees on the verge of the woods until one day a man came by and yelled at them to get down and not come back.
Not only are children not growing up with these vast amounts of room to play, but growing up in mostly indoor confined places like apartments. Researchers call these children container children.
Lastly studies show that just some simple exposure to nature can help reduce the symptoms of ADHD; and improve all childrens cognitive abilities.
One of the other major problems is with the vast spread of modernization and needing room to store things/ people now kids don't really have these places like the woods to roam around in, places with these areas are concidered rare.
Which is around one acre every ten minutes.
One of my favorite quotes from this book is: "This new frontier is characterized by at least five trends: a severance of the public and private mind from our food origins; a disappearing line between machines and humans, and other animals; the invasion of our cities by wild animals; and the rise of a new kind of suburban form.