Love Nature Lost?

There is an interesting account of how just walking in natural locations, starting with visits to Walthamstow Marsh Nature Reserve, helped with both mental health  and addiction issues (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/25/ecological-grief-i-mourn-the-loss-of-nature-it-saved-me-from-addiction#img-1). The benefits to that individual appeared transformative (and hardly unique). The 'rider' to the account is much less positive as she rightly notes that much of the natural world/ park land in the UK is disappearing and/or being degraded. This suggests that it will be much more difficult in the future to extract benefit by communing with nature.