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Yesterday my wife says she read some report: six in ten kids say they don’t believe the earth will be around by the time they reach adulthood.
What a failure of imagination is this. Or worse. A failure of discipline.
Not theirs, of course, but ours. What a great noisy doom-saying din we’ve raised for our children, and what has the doing undone? We have become so literal, so scientific, and so prescriptive about what we tell children that we’ve effectively rid the world of wonder. A child must love the world in order to want to save it.
— Todd Boss, my new favorite poet, in this blog post.
