[Rich_]

Not sure if I fully understand the question, so I hope the following is relevant?

I believe each generation is distancing it's self further from from nature. Interest and involvement in wildlife and our natural surroundings is becoming a hobby rather than a way of life as it used to be.

The human race has become increasingly urbanised in it's mentality,and is losing site of the fact that ALL our food is provided by nature & comes from the country side or the sea. How many today will know how to grow a vegetable or catch and prepare a fish if the delivery lorries fail to turn up at tescos for the next few years? If we can't sustain the high tech civilisation we have built we may need this knowledge again at some point in the future.