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Outdoor time is good for eyesight... But is bad for sunburn. Bad for learning math. Bad for getting wet in the rain and cold in the snow. Bad for breathi
by londons_explore 2y ago
Outdoor time is good for eyesight... But is bad for sunburn. Bad for learning math. Bad for getting wet in the rain and cold in the snow. Bad for breathing in polluted city air.
There doesn't seem to be enough data to truly say what the ideal amount of time outdoors is.
- andreime 2y agois this supposed to be ironic? keeping kids locked in houses for "protection" will bite this generation of parents in the ass
- elric 2y agoThis sunburn scare needs to go away already. Kids aren't getting skin cancer en masse from playing outside for a little bit each day. Outdoor classes used to be pretty common, so being outdoors isn't even necessarily bad for learning maths...
- londons_explore 2y agoTotal column ozone has been dropping for a long time: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348839525/figure/fig5/AS:984941286395925@1611839710816/Latitudinal-variation-of-total-column-ozone-for-different-years.png https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348839525/figure/fi... That means UV exposure outdoors is worse now than it used to be. Unfortunately, it seems nobody measured UV at ground level before we started destroying the ozone layer, but there are barely any historical accounts of serious sunburn before ~1930. Everyone just talks of heat stroke and dehydration rather than actual burning/peeling of the skin.
- vraid 2y agoPeople in Europe and North America generally wore hats and long sleeved clothing before the 1900's. Sun tanning is a modern phenomenon.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoPeople would also not be out very much during the heat of the day. Even going back to ancient farmers.
- lm28469 2y agoNothing long sleeves and a bucket hat won't solve
- sandworm101 2y ago>> This sunburn scare needs to go away already. Kids aren't getting skin cancer It isn't about cancer. It is about modern standards of beauty. Sun ages skin. People learned to avoid the sun because of cancer, but they hide in the shade today to keep their skin looking youthful.
- elric 2y agoIs that really a thing? The hiding, I mean, not the aging. Tanning certainly ages skin. But just being outdoors, going about your day, wearing sensible clothing?
- jononomo 2y agoI am a white guy who was outside for 4-5 hours per day for my entire childhood in India, and I think I only got a sunburn once when I fell asleep on the beach in Goa without my shirt on when I was about 8.
- lm28469 2y agoLife is bad for a whole lot of things but without the bads you can't enjoy the goods. If getting wet and cold is bad wait until your partner dies in a car crash or when your kids die of cancer. People would willingly be uploaded to the matrix and living comfortably in a pod apparently... We're raising generations of people who aren't even developing basic human abilities like having more than 5 second of attention span, being physically fit or being able to see apparently, the drawbacks are starting to weight a lot imho
- CookieCrisp 2y agoThe barbarians are at the gate. I heard my whole life how my generation was going to be useless too. Ruined by arcades and violent tv shows. I am not saying there aren’t going to be drawbacks but “5 second attention span” sounds like the same ole same ole to me.
- lm28469 2y agoThe pace and scale is completely different though, it's accelerating and all encompassing Before it was "rock n roll is bad" for a full generation, now in a single generation you have multiple paradigm shifts, we don't even start to understand the impact of tech X that we're already deploying Y and Z