Nurture For Nature: Society's Addiction To Cell Phones

Jakyre Warner

Ms. Hammons

English 1113 RYAM

2 April 2018 Nurture for Nature The human race is gradually losing touch with nature. Human beings are slowly reducing natural resources that make life easy. We have violated the wild by cutting down trees to build homes and selfishly hunting down game for sport. All this ignorance when it comes to nature can be blamed on technology. With the advancement of technology, people have become more and more absorbed in it while paying no mind to the one important reason they are even able to exist, nature. It is important to restrict the level of technology that children access since it helps make them more aware of nature, eventually leading to its protection. Technology needs to be limited. Those who believe that it should be limited to support their beliefs by stating that technology can result in danger. Addiction to technology-especially cell phones is a rising and worrying factor in today’s generation. The addiction to cell phones has become a huge distraction to one’s brain and the way it functions. What is even more worrying is that even with its addictive nature, people still continue to use it. People have grown to depend on technology so much to the degree that they cannot put it aside for the shortest while even when driving. This

They acknowledge that there are risks of letting children play outside but still state that there are also risks in raising children in virtual environments. They also argue that outside involvement is beneficial to children. They refer to a study done in California which concluded that schools that included outside activities into their curriculum showed a significant increase in a student's performance in social studies, math, language and science compared to schools that did not have outside activities in their curriculum (Leave no Child