Extra Credit:

I find this quote exceptionally true. Something I often think about is how far some people are willing to step out of their lives to follow something they believe in. Many people care for the environment to an extent, some people have recycle bins, some vote for environmental representatives in congress, but few are willing to change their lives for what they believe in. In this situation we seem to be so caught up in our cookie cutter lives it is nearly impossible to dig ourselves out. All or nothing seems to be the way. The next part may seem completely hypocritical as I do not follow these values, but they are solutions I think we should follow. Donating money, and recycling will take away the guilt but to truly sweep off our footprints we must dramatically change the conception of success. But how can we sustain ourselves while not aiding this web we are caught in of conformity and jobs that is killing the environment and basic values. The best thought I could come up with is to create an environment as self-sustainable as possible. It is totally radical, but again, all or nothing. Some steps to creating a self-sustainable environment would be to have your own garden and farm, not all your food can be produced here but aiding the super markets is aiding, “The web.” In my experience many people have far too many clothes. This is completely hypocritical again, but we can happily enjoy our clothing and fashion without having thirty shirts. Drinking water from a water bottle may seem like a small thing, but the amount of plastic and aluminum sodas and drinks I see sold amaze me this would not only reduce your footprint, but would help your health. : ) In the world we live in it is far too tempting to live a self-sustainable life unless we were to pretend we lived three hundred years ago. But these steps are still dramatic for many, including myself. What marvels me is that these steps are so hard to perform. Once we live a certain way like most of us do, it seems that America in itself has become something of a conformed suburban land. We cannot dig ourselves out. But we show our environmental side through small tasks that don’t draw too much attention. He ends by saying we are not ready…yet. We will perhaps be forced to be ready in the future through depleting of our energy sources and dramatic environmental changes, we will be forced to change in the future, but hopefully future generation will see the obscurity in the situation and step out of the cookie cutter before we are forced. But for now, nothing is affecting us directing enough to make any changes in our comfort zone. The “sense of grounding.” We find in our jobs.