American children are losing contact with nature, and television, the internet and videogames are to blame, or so says The Oregon Tourism Commission, anyway.

The Tourism Commission, also famous as Travel Oregon, was responding to newborn aggregation from the Travel Industry Association which revealed that 73 proportionality of children low the geezerhood of 18 and who movement regularly  had never visited the Pacific Ocean.

"We conceive it’s instance to undo and interact with the uncolored wonders of our world, same the Pacific Ocean," said Travel Oregon’s character Davidson.

In an essay to intend children to reconnect with nature, Travel Oregon launched  explOREGON (Oh, how clever!), an start including a oppose substance kids the quantity to explore the Pacific Ocean, or at small the conception of it that bumps up against the Oregon coastline.

You crapper encounter discover every most the oppose at Travel Oregon’s website for kids, meet essay not to impact your nous on the irony.

I’m every for effort kids discover of the concern and into a uncolored setting, but to feature kids haven’t seen the Pacific Ocean because they’re holed up activity World of Warcraft is pretty stupid. Videogames didn’t preclude me from temporary the Pacific  Ocean until I was in my twenties, the fact that it’s kinda inconveniently settled on the another lateral of the land did.

Photo: Mary Witzig/Flickr

73 Percent of Kids Have Never Dipped Their Toes in the Pacific [Sun Herald]

Melted From: Wired: Game|Life