Long TextExercise 66 of 74

The American conservationist Robert Michael Pyle coined the phrase 'the extinction of experience' in 1993 to describe a phenomenon that he considered at least as troubling as the extinction of species. As people in industrialised societies spend ever more of their lives indoors, in cars, and in front of screens…

• What does Robert Michael Pyle's concept of 'the extinction of experience' describe?
• What evidence does the writer provide to support Pyle's original concern?