What really are the societal affects of human alienation from nature?  The term nature deficit disorder coined by Richard Luv was speaking to the behavioral problems that could result for children as they spend increasingly less time outdoors.

What about the costs to adults?

It may be another trendy way of reclassifying questionable behaviour (Seasonal Affective Disorder, Sexual Addiction, etc..) but certainly if you are finding yourself spending more time staring at screen-savers of sunsets on your laptop versus real sunsets at the beach…

Houston, we may have a problem.

It could also be something that runs deeper, a part of our make-up and evolution that makes the notion of being apart from nature, well, unnatural.   Whichever way you may sway it’s likely that Elaine Morgan is less than thrilled with the direction we may be heading.