“Just because you are eco-friendly, doesn’t mean you have gone hippie.” -A quote from MSN Green.
This is a common misconception about environmentalist. I do not consider myself an environmentalist in any way, shape, or form, but I have a concern for the well-being of our planet.
My concern for the environment largely stems from my desire for a healthier and more prosperous society. I link organic products to a decrease in obesity. Hybrid vehicles and electric run buses and subways to cleaner air. Cleaner air could decrease athma, heart and lung disease cases, amongst many other health conditions I presume. Recycling would decrease the use of landfills and mass production of plastics and other harmful materials. Less landfills means less carbon emissions, less impact on climate change, which would result in less of an impact on eco-system destruction. And as I realized recently, more eco-friendly implementations would provide more job opportunities.
The list of benefits goes on and on.
Many people roll their eyes at the discussion of the environment, and I still don’t understand why. Even if you don’t believe global warming is a crisis or even exists, can you not see the smog? The trash that lines the streets of L.A.? Increased health problems? Growing rates of obesity?
The small changes we make in our daily habits should be for more than the planet, it should be for you. For your family.
We search for cures for disease and illnesses. We fund research groups and we cry about health care. Why not decrease disease an illness now so we have less to research, need less medications, and lose less people to unfortunate health conditions? So health care won’t be so difficult to have because there will be less health problems to fund.
Why not?
Why do people roll their eyes at that?
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