Hypocrite

It seemed ironic, our class sitting in the Socratic circle discussing how we as a generation need to help our environment, but when we arrived home from school that day we continued to leave our environmentally destructive footprints. The entire idea of protecting the place that we live in has lost all meaning. We say that we must "protect the environment" constantly, through every kids show and emblazoned across every media platform. But, we will still leave the lights on when we leave in the morning and use more paper than we need. We ridicule those who don't recycle their plastic bottles from lunch, but we don't think about the manufacturing of the product and we don't think about the other things that we do everyday that make such impact. This weekend while at the DECA State Competition in Detroit, litter was scattered all over the street. Half used water bottles were thrown away, and paper was strewn all over the floor at roleplay events. Horrified at this waste, I realized that people are passionate about something they don't really think of as their problem. We are hypocrites. We seek to achieve the minimum; the "safe" amount of pollution instead of as little as possible. Do we really care about the fate of our children or the future of Earth? We work so hard to make wills and divide our assets to take care of our future generations financially, but the Earth is what holds these materialistic things.To actually make an impact first we must actually care to make an impact. You cannot get results if you're not willing to make the effort. Because it is human nature to destroy we must take conscious effort to make change.