I like your distinction between our current view of nature as either setting or background. I think that most people today view nature only as a background as witnessed by extensive use of nature as the background for selfies. This is particularly true of the ocean for most people who travel to the coast only see the ocean as background and not as a setting. One of our goals for our marine education outreach program is to help children to visualize themselves are being part of the ocean, as explorer or fisherman or SCUBA diver. It we want people to care about saving nature, they must see themselves in the setting of nature.
I like your distinction between our current view of nature as either setting or background. I think that most people today view nature only as a background as witnessed by extensive use of nature as the background for selfies. This is particularly true of the ocean for most people who travel to the coast only see the ocean as background and not as a setting. One of our goals for our marine education outreach program is to help children to visualize themselves are being part of the ocean, as explorer or fisherman or SCUBA diver. It we want people to care about saving nature, they must see themselves in the setting of nature.
Hello Michael, We do have a lot of surfers here that spend a lot of time in or on top of the ocean.
The swimming pool is gone now. That pool looked like fun!