"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish caught will we realise we cannot eat money"
This is such a powerful quote from the Cree Indians. It is a straight forward quote but the meaning is still incredibly and sadly relevant today. As industry continues to grow more ecological problems arise. Rain forest are being cut down to make more room for fields that can grow cash crops. In the United States forest are cut for paper and for building houses. When you build a house you have to clear land for lumber and so you can develop the area. When you clear an area of trees or if you clear an area of anything that is key to survival for animals, the populations there will be drastically effected. If a prairie is destroyed so you can build you are destroying a dwindling biome which are incredibly hard to restore.
The fishing and the poison can be roughly put into the same group. People dump so much waste into water sources and it isn't funny. I pulled a t.v out of the Red Cedar behind the Library for one of my labs. What is the point of dumping in the river when you can find better ways to take care of garbage?
Over fishing is a major problem as well. In order to keep up on the growing demands for more food sources commercial fishing boats have to pull more and more fish out of the water. Eventually enough will be enough and there will be nothing left. You can't eat money and we need to do something to slow down and invest in our environment.
The second quote won't be explained as much because I want you to reflect and see how you feel about it. Your parents brought you into this world so you could do your part to try and change it for the better. We want our children to live a better life than we have lived. How can we do this if we leave the world a giant mess? This is why I care. I want my future children to enjoy nature, this could be reading under a tree in the back yard or hiking through Yellowstone.
You should care because without nature we have nothing, it is as simple as that and you can't argue it. Well you can but I will refuse to respond to you. Without nature we wouldn't have the nutrients we need to live and that is a pretty important thing.
So next time you are standing next to a recycling bin with your Mountain Dew and you throw it into the trash or if you just toss something on the side of the road think about what that will do to the world. It could hurt an animal and recycling doesn't take that long to do anyways.
If that hasn't opened your eyes think about are squirrels. Here at MSU we love our squirrels. We wouldn't do anything to purposely hurt them. Throw out your garbage and recycle.
Go Green
Jake B.
I really liked your post and how you talked about the environment and the effects that climate change is having on Earth. I also liked how you used two pictures which had quotes and how you went on to describe the quote and what it meant.
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