Natural Happiness By Paul Bloom Summary

A Breakdown of “Natural Happiness” by Paul Bloom There is this feeling we all experience when we step away from the chaos of rushing cars, infrastructure, and artificial lights, and we step into nature. Some describe it as bliss, comfort, excitement, pleasure or just pure happiness. This is the answer to the question Paul Bloom asks “Why should we care about nature?” in his article “Natural Happiness.” Paul goes through this process in which he uncovers the fact that “real natural habitats provide significant sources of pleasure for modern humans”, regardless of our need for food, clean water, and air. There are 3 main arguments that Paul makes in this article that I find particularly interesting, they include: “Our hunger for the natural is everywhere. In many regards our species has already kissed nature goodbye, and we are better off for it. There is a considerable mismatch between

While there is debate over the details, we know for sure that our minds were not adapted to cope with a world of billions of people.” I believe technology as well as the growth of the industrialized world is to blame for this disconnect. We are money hungry, not all of us, but the United States, specifically revolve around a Capitalistic society where the mentality is that wealth is the main source of happiness. Paul states how, “Thousands of years ago, there was no television or Internet, no McDonald’s, birth-control pills, Viagra, plastic surgery, alarm clocks, artificial lighting or paternity tests. Instead, there was plenty of nature. We lived surrounded by trees and water and animals and sky.” And guess what, we