Lv focuses on the “recent proliferation of ‘metaverse’ virtual worlds, where tech companies are investing billions to create hyper-realistic digital environments, including simulated natural landscapes. . . . these virtual ecosystems risk perpetuating a commodified and sanitized portrayal of nature, devoid of the unpredictability, risk, and spontaneity that shape our evolutionary connection to the living world. Overreliance on such curated experiences among younger generations could inadvertently reinforce environmental generational amnesia, where each successive cohort becomes further detached from the authentic…