Climate change will disrupt everything, including the engagement of kids with nature

Warren McLaren explains that most adults climbed trees and played outdoors when they were children.

Warren McLaren's picture explains perfectly
 how kids engage with nature in an
 unstructured way.

“But,” he writes on the ABC Environment, “Today's young people don't play outdoors like their parents. It's an omission with grave implications.”

Writing in his story headed: “Without nature, the little children suffer”, McLaren turns to a comment from famous American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, who said: "In wildness is the preservation of the world", to help illustrate his argument.

It is human activities that are causing the difficulty that McLaren points to in that we are decimating the world’s species and it is those same activities that are worsening the impact of climate change.