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March 18, 2007 By Daniel Botkin 2 Comments


Who Visits our National Parks?

It is estimated that only one in ten Americans has been to a national park. What if a program provided funds to send many young, poor people from our cities to visit one national park? Sounds good, but our national parks are understaffed, and their buildings, roads, and trails need renovation. As presently funded, our parks could not absorb those new visitors.

An Urban World

Are we becoming city-folk? Today, 2.75 billion people --45% of the world's population ---live in cities. By 2025, this will increase to 62%. The question then is how do we bring people to nature, or nature to people?

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  1. Dr. Troy Camplin says

    November 26, 2007 at 10:56 am

    We do it in the schools, with class pets, aquariums, terrariums, green houses, and gardens.

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  2. Sebastian Gadoury says

    April 19, 2011 at 10:29 am

    I really must make the comment that it is really quite pleasing to visit a somewhat ‘different’ blog such as this one, good effort. I expect I’ll be visiting fairly soon to see if you have uploaded another comment.

    Reply

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From Daniel B. Botkin, Ph.D

Daniel Botkin
I believe we are mostly on the wrong track in the way we try to deal with the environment. Everything I do, study, learn, and advise about the environment is different from the status quo. Throughout my career, I have tried to understand how nature works and use that understanding to figure out how we can solve our most pressing environmental problems.

My process over the past 45 years has been to look carefully at the facts, make simple calculations from them (sometimes simple computer models) and then tell people what I have learned. It’s surprising how rarely people bother to look at the facts. This has surprised me every time I’ve started a new ecology research project or work on an environmental issue.

In the course of my work and studies, I have learned many things and I want to tell you about them. That is the purpose of this website.

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