{"id":219917,"date":"2025-08-12T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/connection-with-nature-sees-dramatic-decline-over-the-last-two-centuries"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:10:17","slug":"connection-with-nature-sees-dramatic-decline-over-the-last-two-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/connection-with-nature-sees-dramatic-decline-over-the-last-two-centuries","title":{"rendered":"Connection with nature sees dramatic decline over the last two centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/connection-with-nature-sees-dramatic-decline-over-the-last-two-centuries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past 220 years, the connection between people and nature has declined by more than 60%. That\u2019s the key finding of a study led by Miles Richardson, a professor of nature connectedness at the University of Derby in England.<\/p>\n<p>Losing touch with nature is increasingly recognized as a contributing factor to the environmental crisis the planet is facing today. When people feel disconnected from the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/natural+world\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural world<\/a>, they are less likely to protect it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 220 years, the connection between people and nature has declined by more than 60%. That\u2019s the key finding of a study led by Miles Richardson, a professor of nature connectedness at the University of Derby in England. Losing touch with nature is increasingly recognized as a contributing factor to the environmental crisis [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}