^{is separation from nature,” she says. “We don’t see that we are connected to the natural world.” With more people living in cities than in rural areas for the first time in human history, the delusion of separation is likely to worsen. A recent scientific study found that more children knew the characters of the video game Pokemon than could recognise an oak tree or an otter, according to the Ecological Society of America, a Washington DC-based organisation of 10,000 ecological scientists. Visits to national and state parks in the United States have declined by as much as 25 percent in the last decade, while kids remain indoors watching TV and playing computer games. And yet there is ample evidence that children who connect with nature perform better in school, have higher academic testing scores, exhibit fewer behavioural challenges, and experience fewer attention-deficit disorders, the ESA said in a recent statement.}

from OneWorld.net’s article, Happiness is a small eco-footprint.