Alone In Nature & Earth Day

Feeling lonely? Dangerous Dave talks about a study that says connecting with nature could help. Plus, it is Earth Day, how many people know when Earth Day is?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Snip deeper in the din with dangerous day well bank Earth.
They have about a nice walk in nature today might
have some unexpected benefits. Researchers did a study in Norway.
They looked at twenty five hundred people living near in lake.
They found that the people will spent more time around
the lake, reported less loneliness, and those who were not
connecting with nature and socializing with other people didn't make

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much of a difference. The most important factor was feeling
connected in nature itself. Oddly enough, being alone in nature
actually made people feel less alone because they were focused
on something greater than themselves. There does have to be
a balance there. They warned that too much isolation can backfire.
So the next time you're feeling lonely, a quiet walk
out in nature right now might be better for you

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than your group hangout. Well, there you go. If you're
feeling lonely, go take a long walk off a short
pier deeper in the two. Today is Earth. They celebrated
every year April twenty second, and if you didn't know that,
you'd be in the majority. Two thousand people were surveyed
last month. Twenty three percent of people said they were
confident they could name the exact date of Earth Day,
then they asked that twenty three percent what is it?

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Fifty seven percent rightly said it falls in April, and
just twenty six percent of them did get April twenty
second exactly right. Apparently means that some people who are
not confident did guess correctly. Younger generations claim a higher
familiarity with Earth Day in the history. Forty two percent
of millennials say they're knowledgeable about it, compared to just

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twenty eight percent of boomers. By the way Earth Day
has been celebrated since nineteen seventy, millennials also said they're
more likely to do something with the environment or sustainable
to celebrate Earth Day. Thirty percent of millennials said their
behavior changes April twenty second, compared to just twelve percent
of boomers. However, forty four percent of the millennials who
do participate admit their Earth Day friendly change is just temporary.

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So today is Earth Day. Treat the Earth well, I
think I'll just lie down on it, give it a
big hug to they can. For another episode of Deeper
in the Den with Dangerous Dave Bright hear