The Grass is Greener: Not Yet

"Were treated like like children by environmental elites and political too timid to call forth the best in us or too blind to that which has made us a great nation". Its not only politicans that can be blamed for the sad donations that some of us give to help save the environment. The education system can take a hit for this as well. Like learning a language, the best time to learn is when your young. Many children around the world know two languages by the time their 10 years old but here in the United States the average American only knows one language. And like this we need to implement this into the youth as well. When kids come home to their parents to talk about what they learned and what's going on it will ring a bell to the parents that their 5 year old knows more about environmental conservation and its surroundings more than they do. In D.C they now charge .5 cents for any plastic bag at grocery stores. This is what is meant by being treated like babies; people might feel happy at the end of the day because they used a recyclable bag or buy organic foods but this is only in the capital of the United States. If the governmental wanted to they can put pressure on States to do this as well but technically cannot get into the thick of business.

Depending on where you are in the United States their seems to be a different culture wherever you go. Being from New York, whether you have a small family or a big one you'll see gigantic SUV's and trucks that are being driven by everyone. On the Long Island Expressway they recently added to the HOV lane that if you have a Hybrid you can enter in, but very few cars in the HOV are hybrids. In Virginia, at Tysons Corner Mall, one can get the closest parking entrance to the mall if they have a Hybrid car. Majority of the times when I'm their these spots are empty. The United States as many of us know and many around the world see us are very materialistic, complain if you want but its a fact. We get what we want and if we can't afford it we take out a home equity loan and everything is well..haha. Their needs to be a revolution in saving energy and going green. I think we need to start with the kids, because since this is effecting the future why not educate those that will be their when we will be gone.