Is there a future for nature?

In "Nature at the Mall" Jennifer Price asks: "Is it possible that people in our culture have become so estranged from nature that their only avenue to it is consumerism?" (195). This is a pretty dire statement--do you agree? Are we too estranged or segregated from nature? How can we overcome that division?

I believe that over time we have become more and more technologically dependent in our society and definately have drifted somewhat from our more primal state that once depended solely upon nature. I believe that this is not nessecarily a harmful thing, as long as we use our developing technology to better the natural environment around us. There is definately people that have not become too estranged from nature but has this group deminished so immensly that they will never be able to make an impact. It can be seen that in our society we want to make a difference to the changing and somewhat declining world around us, when dealing with matters of natural resources and our environment. There needs to be something done to overcome this division of between consumerism and the preservation of nature. This may begin with the instillment of knowlege upon kids our age that in time will be the ones making the decisions and policies that can change things for the better.