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How Environmental Generational Amnesia Affects Our Mental Health

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Most people are familiar with amnesia, the inability to recall events that happen before or after a significant incident, such as a head injury. But what about environmental generational amnesia or EGA, the phenomena by which across generations, the norm for a healthy, natural world declines? Each generation largely accepts the environment they are born into as nature’s norm, no matter how degraded that environment may be. Studies have shown that urbanization is linked to mental illness, such as depression, which is why access to nature in urbanized areas may improve mental health. A recent study even suggests greater exposure to green space may also slow genetic aging, though the effect varies across race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Another study indicates a 90-minute nature walk elicits beneficial neural activity in a part of the brain associated with depression and anxiety. Peter Kahn, director of the Human Interaction with Nature and Technological Systems (HINTS) Lab at the

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