For many Americans, the great outdoors appears to have been replaced by the technology-rich indoors.
The Scientific American reports that Americans have been visiting national parks and other natural reserves
less and less since 1987, and that the popularity of outdoor activities like camping and hunting is on the wane. Sciam cites a study who results were recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, showing that, with the exception of a slight increase in backpacking, outdoor pursuits peaked between 1981 and 1991 after 50 years of steady increase and
have been declining at roughly 1 percent per year since for an overall
drop of as much as 25 percent.
Read more in the Scientific American.
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
About 20 years ago I worked for a lawn service on weekends. In spite of the 2+ acre backyards and the fair weather, I never saw anybody outdoors. In our development, all 100 units have patios, but so far we know only five people who’ve sat on them. And so on and so on. I think our whole culture has gone agoraphobic.