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Last Child in the Woods, journalist Richard Loot's landmark 2005 book, documents a trend which should be disturbing to anyone who cares about the health of our children and the future of the natural world. Through thousands of interviews with researchers, educators, parents, and children themselves, he found that kids today seldom have the same experience playing outdoors, in nature, that so many of us took for granted when we were growing up. He shows how many factors - television, computers, .Gamebqys, and parental fears of violence and of lawsuits, among others - have combined to alienate kids from the natural work! He has even given this prob

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