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.
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.
> 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.
Life 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
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.
I 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.
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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 breathing in polluted city air.
There doesn't seem to be enough data to truly say what the ideal amount of time outdoors is.
This 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...
Total column ozone has been dropping for a long time:
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.
People in Europe and North America generally wore hats and long sleeved clothing before the 1900's. Sun tanning is a modern phenomenon.
People would also not be out very much during the heat of the day. Even going back to ancient farmers.
Nothing long sleeves and a bucket hat won't solve
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.
Is 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?
Life 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
The 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.
is this supposed to be ironic? keeping kids locked in houses for "protection" will bite this generation of parents in the ass
I 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.