Sometimes in life ...

... it's often not that we as people don't understand.

It's that often we don't want to accept. Case in point -

http://www.alternet.org/environment/great-environmental-crisis-no-one-talks-about?akid=9719.1084699.zAESRt&rd=1&src=newsletter749897&t=18&paging=off (thanks Buzzflash).

The Great Environmental Crisis No One Talks About

The young people we might have expected to lead the defense of nature have less and less to do with it.

 

"We don’t have to disparage the indoor world, which has its own rich ecosystem, to lament children’s disconnection from the outdoor world. But the experiences the two spheres offer are entirely different. There is no substitute for what takes place outdoors; not least because the greatest joys of nature are unscripted. The thought that most of our children will never swim among phosphorescent plankton at night, will never be startled by a salmon leaping, a dolphin breaching, the stoop of a peregrine, the rustle of a grass snake is almost as sad as the thought that their children might not have the opportunity.
The remarkable collapse of children’s engagement with nature – which is even faster than the collapse of the natural world – is recorded in Richard Louv’s book Last Child in the Woods, and in a report published recently by the National Trust. Since the 1970s the area in which children may roam without supervision has decreased by almost 90%(8)."

Can you imagine - admitting that we're conciously not wanting to deal with things like global warming and the subsequent collapse of our societies so much so that we don't want our children to know, or even be exposed to it.

And yet, that is exactly what we as people are doing.