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Spring! Other times spring is about blossoming trees and nature awakening from the last breath of winter. But I can not help wondering: Will we ever have a season like this again in a few years? With April weather comparable to the heat of summer, it's impossible not to think about the phenomenon and significance of climate change.

Have we really reached the point where we have to tell our children about the snowdrops that come out of the snow anyway and about the moody April because they have not experienced it for themselves? Can we say goodbye to the four seasons and start engaging with the two? In the midst of the magnitude of these global issues, our own smallness becomes all the more palpable. And is it really man, human activity, that is to blame? In such a big picture, does it even matter how a person lives? How do they spend their free time? Can running on a treadmill contribute to the disappearance of spring? That we travel far to recharge instead of taking advantage of local opportunities? That we drive instead of using public transportation? How often we change our goods? The decisions of a single person can hardly be taken into account here. But what about 8 billion people?

Nature does not care whether there will be another spring in the Carpathian Basin. At most, it will change its appearance again, just as it has done a million times before through natural selection. We humans do care. Maybe that's why it's worth doing something about it. And indeed, our profession as recreationists can play a role in this.

László Lajos Lippai

Head of Department

University of Szeged, Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, Institute of Applied Health Sciences and Environmental Education, Department of Health Psychology and Mental Health