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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:41 - 0 Comments
Bringing Nature Back and Why it’s not an Option
Natural Happiness and Artificial Misery By Paul Bloom
A Matschie's Tree Kangaroo, (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
Why should we care about nature? Should we care about it for its own sake — or for our sake, because it happens to make us happy or healthy? These might not seem like the brightest questions.
Few people need convincing that the destruction of rain forests, the mass extinction of species and the melting of the ice sheets in Greenland would all be very bad things. Do we really need to list the reasons?
There is a considerable mismatch between the world in which our minds evolved and our current existence. Our species has spent almost all of its existence on the African savanna.
While there is debate over the details, we know for sure that our minds were not adapted to cope with a world of billions of people.
The life of a modern city dweller, surrounded by strangers, is an evolutionary novelty.
Thousands of years ago, there was no television or Internet, no McDonald’s, birth-control pills, Viagra, plastic surgery, alarm clocks, artificial lighting or paternity tests. Instead, there was plenty of nature. We lived 
surrounded by trees and water and animals and sky. Continue…
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