Works of popular culture, we reasoned, should reflect the extent to which nature occupies our collective consciousness. Instead, we turned to the cultural products they created. To find out how the human relation to nature has changed over time, we asked ourselves: How can we define and measure all the various ways in which people connect with nature? How can we count all the times people stop to watch a sunset or listen to birds chirping, or how long they spend walking tree-lined streets? We could certainly ask these questions to living people, but we couldn’t ask people who lived a hundred years ago. It is widely accepted that we are more disconnected from nature today than we were a century ago, but is that actually true? A recent study we conducted suggests that it is-and that may be bad news not only for our well-being but also for the environment.
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