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		<title>More Reasons to Go Green</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading another article at SciAm today &#8211; The Moral Call of the Wild: A study suggests that spending time in nature changes our values. The basic gist of the article is a new study has &#8220;shown&#8221; (I&#8217;d have to see more about the structure and methodology of the study to remove the quotes) that people who spend more time in the natural world are more other-focused and less self-focused. They suggest that the trend of our society spending less and less time outside with the birds and bees over the last 30 or 40 years is correlated with us becoming more and more self-focused, and that time spent in nature actually changes our values. Interesting concept. I&#8217;ve always loved being outside. For a time in my teens and 20s, I would get distinctly anxious if I couldn&#8217;t spend enough time in the outdoors. I still get mildly depressed in the winter when the light level drops and bounce back again in the spring, but the angst I used to experience has gone away since I became a Christian. What I really found interesting about the article, though, was one of the comments by &#8220;Babbin&#8221; &#8211; Since when is caring about others more important than caring about yourself? Wow! Like since the whole of recorded history, dude! When I decided to officially embrace atheism just after high school, I did my own unofficial comparative religion study (I would do this again later, officially, in college which simply confirmed the conclusions I....]]></description>
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