Reply #46: If you don't go out much, your skin is much more sensitive when you DO

[SmokingJacket]

go out.

People are spending less and less time walking from place to place and aren't getting lots of small doses of sun, so their skin can't handle huge doses as well.

As you know, skin that has a light tan doesn't burn like pale white skin.

Just my take on it... I believe in global warming and ozone depletion (of course) but I'm not so sure that the problem isn't partly that we've become an indoor species...