What evidence is there to support nature-bonding as the focus for early childhood?

Young children become paralysed by fear when they fear guilt for ecological destruction at too early an age. Such guilt is typically introduced through “story-telling”, i.e. not through direct experiences with the natural world in their neighborhoods.

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