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Technology and Nature, Sitting in a Tree
Well-timed to serve as a coincidental but completely appropriate follow-up to the piece I wrote earlier today (wherein I rant about how much other people rant about children), Richard Louv shares the right way to think about the topic of children, technology and nature:
Many people believe that technology is the antithesis of nature. Here’s an alternate view. A fishing rod is technology. So is that fancy backpack. Or a compass. Or a tent. When boomers my age ran through the woods with play guns (as distasteful as that might be to some people), they were using technology as an entry tool to nature.
Today, the family that together goes geo-caching or wildlife photographing with their digital cameras, or collecting pond samples, is doing something as legitimate as going fishing; both involve gadgets that offer an excuse to get outside. Young citizen naturalists are bound to have a different attitude about technology from many older people — and that could be an advantage.
Louv, as you may know, is a renowned environmentalist and a prolific writer – perhaps best recognized for his tremendous book Last Child in the Woods. Needless to say, it’s nice to hear words like these coming from someone like him, who is regarded as the perennial expert on the subject of children and nature.