The Extent of True Environmentalism

Today I saw a video about extremist treehuggers crying over trees. The video was from 2008 and was filmed in South Carolina, although the landscape looks like something out of a jungle movie. It was crazy beyond a doubt and crying over trees will not help the situation, but what really made me angry were the responses to the video.

First they joked about how the people were crying over trees, making rude comments about their appearance and saying they should stop smoking weed, but the worst comment was by the person who posted the video. The person said that these “stupid liberal moonbats” should be more concerned about abortion, disease and famine and blamed these “issues” on environmental activism. Again I admit that the people in the video are absurd, but they are not activist and I don’t know what to call them, insane probably defines them the most.

An activist is defined as trying to save something, not mourn about it and hope that the world will change on its own because without activism nothing would happen. Personally I feel insulted by the comments because, although I am not a crazy treehugger, I go out of my way reduce the already abundant pollution on earth.

If the world is to change, first people must understand situations like this, then after knowing what is happening to the world, make an educated decision that is supported with facts other than pointless arguments about “I believe,” “I don’t believe.” Then it should be applied locally. Even in Hercules there are people commenting about not banning plastic bags and limit their observations to how useful the “free” bags and disregard where the bags end up and how that affects animals and ultimately them again.

I don’t thing the word “treehugger” should be associated with crazy people, I think it should mean those who are environmentally conscious but focused to one aspect of the bigger problem.

And addressing the abortion, disease and famine, abortion should not be a problem because it is a choice that should not be argued about, the second is attributed to the growing number of humans, the more humans the more likely a new deadlier strain will emerge and one is a product of profit, there is enough food in the US to end world hunger it just chooses not to.

Hello and Welcome to my blog. As you can see from the title of the blog I am an environmentalist and am passionate about it. I am constantly updated on the most current news from another environmental focused news website, TreeHugger. Other material that I will blog about comes from different blogs or sites that matter to me.

I first became aware of my passion when I took AP Biology at my school. For one of our labs we went down to our local creek and collected samples of the water. The first thing I noticed was the stark contrast between the area around the creek and the urbanized city, then I saw the trash that obstructed the flow of the creek. Considering how I was learning how life was created, I was deeply disappointed at the status of the creek. High School has a similar effect: no one cares that students leave trash on school ground, but why does this happen?

And from this question I began investigating things I could do, and shortly after, found everything I needed and started my own club, The Environmental Club.

Although I am not interested in pursuing an education focusing on the environment, as a person interested in biology, I want the environment to stay undeveloped for the animals, for the plants and for the world. Anyways life is beautiful so why would humanity want to pollute it? I want to show my concerns and I will try to extend my scope not only in the US but to the world. This is a global problem and the only way to solve it is by the collaboration of everyone around the world.

This blog is dedicated to my opinions about current environmental issues and other things I find. I know there are plenty of blog out there about this, but this is my way of getting my passion out there, instead of watching silently doing and saying nothing.