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This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

In urban areas, so many people, it's hard to imagine from this beautiful spot in Edinburgh,

but so many people in the world are living in bigger and bigger cities

and really detached from any experience of nature. In China and other places, including there have

plenty of cities in the U.S. that fortunately have improved in recent decades, but in many places it's so polluted that you really don't see the stars at night.

So you could actually not even know where your place in the universe is really?

That's a really piercing way to put it.

You have kids doubting that stars exist and saying, you know,

Mommy, I really don't believe you. It's heart-wrenching to think of that.

A bit of a depressing thought from Gretchen Daly there, but fear not, this podcast is not all doom and gloom.

In fact, you may be surprised to learn

some positive news about good things happening in the world when it comes to nature. Gretchen is

co-founder and director of the Stanford University Natural Capital Project based in California.

She was visiting Edinburgh recently and I was intrigued to learn more

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