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Moderate to high environmental beauty
Moderate to low healthcare system
Go Climb A Tree
Intro:
Recently, @@NATION@@ has seen a disturbing increase in the amount of injuries sustained from kids falling out of trees and other various nature-related injuries. Various citizens have proposed to you their plans for increased child safety in nature, during your peaceful evening walk in @@ANIMAL@@ Park, in which you see multiple children plummet out of the branches of tall trees.
A frazzled-looking nurse from @@CAPITAL@@ slowly and carefully walks up to you, stepping around anything slippery or round. “This can’t go on, @@LEADER@@. We’ve seen a tenfold increase in kids getting injured while from nature in the past few months, whether it be from falling from trees, eating odd berries in the woods, and even from stubbing their poor little toesies while climbing rocks. We need to clamp down on the amount of frolicking and climbing kids can do outside, for our sake and the children’s. Please @@LEADER@@, we are running out of room in the hospitals!”
Result: mesh plastic fences surround every tree in @@NATION@@
“Oh please”, says noted environmentalist @@RANDOMFIRSTNAMEMALE@@ @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@; “we don’t need to prohibit curious kids from interacting with nature in a fun way. Yes, some kids have gotten injured, but all we need to do is add some basic outdoors skills to school curriculums, such as what types of plants to avoid, and what berries are safe to eat, and how to climb trees and rocks safely. We should also encourage guided nature walks as field trips for all age levels to have kids see what they are learning about. Then, kids can learn to be safer in the outdoors, and pick up some interesting nature facts to inspire them to help save and conserve the environment! Simple as that.”
Result: kids learn to climb sheer cliffs every Tuesday under the supervision of a park docent and their Science teacher
“Bah, let ‘em be.”, laments professional wise old man @@RANDOMFIRSTNAMEMALE@@@@RANDOMLASTNAME@@, “Back in my day, kids roamed the streets and played outside all the time. It was all we did, because we didn’t have any of these gadgets and doohickeys and banana phones or whatever they’re called. Not saying we should ban ‘em, I do quite like those puzzle games, but we should just butt out of what the young ‘uns want to do outside. In fact, we could use a few less kids round here, too many on my lawn recently. Let’s force em all to be outside for a few hours a day or so, maybe they’ll get, ah, some battle scars to show for it… or worse.”
Result: no one bats an eye when a kid falls from the upper branches of a tree in @@NATION@@
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