I've mentioned it before but we have lost touch with nature. The sad demise of Isak Heartstone is similar to the National Park Service grappling with nature being "loved to death."
"Many public land managers are grappling with the question of how to enable those places to be accessible to people, to be enjoyed and appreciated, while also balancing that with the need to protect the other living beings there, the animals, plants and ecosystems," says Marion Hourdequin, professor of philosophy and environmental science at Colorado College.
The problem is after hundreds of years living in an urban environment, we forgot how to respect parks, trails and public land. People leave trash everywhere, make lots of noise, get drunk, have huge RVs in places designated for tents, threaten park rangers, cut down trees for firewood. These are actual examples of human behavior at camp grounds.
Years ago, there was a clever PSA where the three bears trash a human lawn, rip out some fence for fire wood and behave-well, like humans. And there is the classic 1971 "Crying Indian" PSA about polluting that needs to be brought back.
Beyond the man made city is the real wild world. It's not a product, or plaything to be used and tossed aside like a paper cup. We must remember that we belong to the Earth not the other way around.
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