God Bless America...yeah Right.

[MolotovLuv]

This doesn't surprise me. I love how this article is posted next to an article on how the Earth is the hottest it's been in over 2,000 years. Damn people are ignorant and brainwashed around here :(

Americans prefer video to national parks: study



By Jon Hurdle Tue Jun 20, 11:36 PM ET

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Americans are less interested in spending time in natural surroundings like national parks because they are spending more time watching television, playing video games and surfing the Internet, according to a study released on Tuesday.
The study, for The Nature Conservancy, found per-capita visits to national parks have been declining for years.

National park visitation data starting in 1930 peaked in 1987 at 1.2 visits per person per year. But by 2003 it had declined by about 25 percent to 0.9 visits per person per year, said Oliver Pergams, an ecologist at the University of Illinois who analyzed the data for the study.

The data, based on government statistics and other sources, were taken as a proxy for interest in nature in general.

Researchers tested more than two dozen possible explanations for the trend and found that 98 percent of the drop in national park visits was explained by video games, movie rentals, going out to movies, Internet use and rising fuel prices.

Other possible explanations such as family income or the aging population were ruled out.

There was a sufficiently high correlation between declining national park visits and the burgeoning use of electronic media that led Pergams and his associate, Patricia Zaradic, believe the two are linked. "It made us feel fairly certain that there is an association," Pergams told Reuters.

The study, to be published in the Journal of Environmental Management, concludes that the trend has negative implications for environmental stewardship.

"We may be seeing evidence of a fundamental shift away from people's appreciation of nature to 'videophilia' which we here define as the new human tendency to focus on sedentary activities involving electronic media," the researchers said.

"Such a shift would not bode well for the future of biodiversity conservation."

Nature Conservancy President Steve McCormick said the study suggests Americans and their children in particular are losing their connection to the natural world.

"When children choose TVs over trees, they lose touch with the physical world outside and the fundamental connection of those places to our daily lives," McCormick said.

[MolotovLuv]

This doesn't surprise me. I love how this article is posted next to an article on how the Earth is the hottest it's been in over 2,000 years. Damn people are ignorant and brainwashed around here :(

Americans prefer video to national parks: study



By Jon Hurdle Tue Jun 20, 11:36 PM ET

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Americans are less interested in spending time in natural surroundings like national parks because they are spending more time watching television, playing video games and surfing the Internet, according to a study released on Tuesday.
The study, for The Nature Conservancy, found per-capita visits to national parks have been declining for years.

National park visitation data starting in 1930 peaked in 1987 at 1.2 visits per person per year. But by 2003 it had declined by about 25 percent to 0.9 visits per person per year, said Oliver Pergams, an ecologist at the University of Illinois who analyzed the data for the study.

The data, based on government statistics and other sources, were taken as a proxy for interest in nature in general.

Researchers tested more than two dozen possible explanations for the trend and found that 98 percent of the drop in national park visits was explained by video games, movie rentals, going out to movies, Internet use and rising fuel prices.

Other possible explanations such as family income or the aging population were ruled out.

There was a sufficiently high correlation between declining national park visits and the burgeoning use of electronic media that led Pergams and his associate, Patricia Zaradic, believe the two are linked. "It made us feel fairly certain that there is an association," Pergams told Reuters.

The study, to be published in the Journal of Environmental Management, concludes that the trend has negative implications for environmental stewardship.

"We may be seeing evidence of a fundamental shift away from people's appreciation of nature to 'videophilia' which we here define as the new human tendency to focus on sedentary activities involving electronic media," the researchers said.

"Such a shift would not bode well for the future of biodiversity conservation."

Nature Conservancy President Steve McCormick said the study suggests Americans and their children in particular are losing their connection to the natural world.

"When children choose TVs over trees, they lose touch with the physical world outside and the fundamental connection of those places to our daily lives," McCormick said.

[MolotovLuv]

This doesn't surprise me. I love how this article is posted next to an article on how the Earth is the hottest it's been in over 2,000 years. Damn people are ignorant and brainwashed around here :(

Americans prefer video to national parks: study



By Jon Hurdle Tue Jun 20, 11:36 PM ET

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Americans are less interested in spending time in natural surroundings like national parks because they are spending more time watching television, playing video games and surfing the Internet, according to a study released on Tuesday.
The study, for The Nature Conservancy, found per-capita visits to national parks have been declining for years.

National park visitation data starting in 1930 peaked in 1987 at 1.2 visits per person per year. But by 2003 it had declined by about 25 percent to 0.9 visits per person per year, said Oliver Pergams, an ecologist at the University of Illinois who analyzed the data for the study.

The data, based on government statistics and other sources, were taken as a proxy for interest in nature in general.

Researchers tested more than two dozen possible explanations for the trend and found that 98 percent of the drop in national park visits was explained by video games, movie rentals, going out to movies, Internet use and rising fuel prices.

Other possible explanations such as family income or the aging population were ruled out.

There was a sufficiently high correlation between declining national park visits and the burgeoning use of electronic media that led Pergams and his associate, Patricia Zaradic, believe the two are linked. "It made us feel fairly certain that there is an association," Pergams told Reuters.

The study, to be published in the Journal of Environmental Management, concludes that the trend has negative implications for environmental stewardship.

"We may be seeing evidence of a fundamental shift away from people's appreciation of nature to 'videophilia' which we here define as the new human tendency to focus on sedentary activities involving electronic media," the researchers said.

"Such a shift would not bode well for the future of biodiversity conservation."

Nature Conservancy President Steve McCormick said the study suggests Americans and their children in particular are losing their connection to the natural world.

"When children choose TVs over trees, they lose touch with the physical world outside and the fundamental connection of those places to our daily lives," McCormick said.

[Everyday Anarchy]

Television + Video Games + Internet > National Parks


Sorry, but most people find them much more entertaining and I honestly see nothing wrong with that. It's not that they're 'brainwashed' or 'ignorant.'

[Everyday Anarchy]

Television + Video Games + Internet > National Parks


Sorry, but most people find them much more entertaining and I honestly see nothing wrong with that. It's not that they're 'brainwashed' or 'ignorant.'

[Everyday Anarchy]

Television + Video Games + Internet > National Parks


Sorry, but most people find them much more entertaining and I honestly see nothing wrong with that. It's not that they're 'brainwashed' or 'ignorant.'

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Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2006, 02:53 AM
Television + Video Games + Internet > National Parks


Sorry, but most people find them much more entertaining and I honestly see nothing wrong with that. It's not that they're 'brainwashed' or 'ignorant.'
I'm not saying it's wrong to think those things are more entertaining then the outdoors and nature, but I fear to many people, the environment isn't even on their radar screen. They'd be a lot happier to see a concrete jungle and fat roads to drive their big ass cars through built on top of forests. It's people's attitudes that bother me and if you don't think Americans are ignorant then you live in a better area than I do. People once cherished the land, what happened? oh yeah, they were exterminated.

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Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2006, 02:53 AM
Television + Video Games + Internet > National Parks


Sorry, but most people find them much more entertaining and I honestly see nothing wrong with that. It's not that they're 'brainwashed' or 'ignorant.'
I'm not saying it's wrong to think those things are more entertaining then the outdoors and nature, but I fear to many people, the environment isn't even on their radar screen. They'd be a lot happier to see a concrete jungle and fat roads to drive their big ass cars through built on top of forests. It's people's attitudes that bother me and if you don't think Americans are ignorant then you live in a better area than I do. People once cherished the land, what happened? oh yeah, they were exterminated.

[MolotovLuv]

Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2006, 02:53 AM
Television + Video Games + Internet > National Parks


Sorry, but most people find them much more entertaining and I honestly see nothing wrong with that. It's not that they're 'brainwashed' or 'ignorant.'
I'm not saying it's wrong to think those things are more entertaining then the outdoors and nature, but I fear to many people, the environment isn't even on their radar screen. They'd be a lot happier to see a concrete jungle and fat roads to drive their big ass cars through built on top of forests. It's people's attitudes that bother me and if you don't think Americans are ignorant then you live in a better area than I do. People once cherished the land, what happened? oh yeah, they were exterminated.

[which doctor]

At least it means the parks are less crowded with reactionary shit.

[which doctor]

At least it means the parks are less crowded with reactionary shit.

[which doctor]

At least it means the parks are less crowded with reactionary shit.

[Rawthentic]

Everybody is cooped up in their homes, people dont interact anymore, and thats a problem. TV and video games are a problem because of the things that people are offered such as reality Tv shows, violent, stupid video games. Instead of this, kids could be reading the manifesto or something important, maybe exercising. So there is a problem with that

[Rawthentic]

Everybody is cooped up in their homes, people dont interact anymore, and thats a problem. TV and video games are a problem because of the things that people are offered such as reality Tv shows, violent, stupid video games. Instead of this, kids could be reading the manifesto or something important, maybe exercising. So there is a problem with that

[Rawthentic]

Everybody is cooped up in their homes, people dont interact anymore, and thats a problem. TV and video games are a problem because of the things that people are offered such as reality Tv shows, violent, stupid video games. Instead of this, kids could be reading the manifesto or something important, maybe exercising. So there is a problem with that

[MolotovLuv]

I think the biggest problem with TV is the media's influence through it. It's so convenient for people to turn on their box's flip through CNN, MSNBC, FOX and so on that they don't even think about whether or not it's even news. Americans need to choose, do we want news, or this so called "entertainment." In a time such as this, is it appropriate for the media to be talking about American Idol or some actress giving birth? Is this what people really give a shit about?

[MolotovLuv]

I think the biggest problem with TV is the media's influence through it. It's so convenient for people to turn on their box's flip through CNN, MSNBC, FOX and so on that they don't even think about whether or not it's even news. Americans need to choose, do we want news, or this so called "entertainment." In a time such as this, is it appropriate for the media to be talking about American Idol or some actress giving birth? Is this what people really give a shit about?

[MolotovLuv]

I think the biggest problem with TV is the media's influence through it. It's so convenient for people to turn on their box's flip through CNN, MSNBC, FOX and so on that they don't even think about whether or not it's even news. Americans need to choose, do we want news, or this so called "entertainment." In a time such as this, is it appropriate for the media to be talking about American Idol or some actress giving birth? Is this what people really give a shit about?