There seems to be a problem that bothers me greatly about the community and the things that we do with our trash. I am a high school student, and I am very concerned about the generations after me. People in the Triad seem to throw their trash out onto the roads, sidewalks, everywhere, and something needs to be done about it. The littering is polluting the air and causing a hole in the ozone layer.
Do we want to risk our children's and grandchildren's future by ruining the atmosphere? We need to keep the environment safe for our future generations so that they can live a safe and healthy life and not live in fear of the ozone being destroyed. Our ozone is slowly being destroyed because of the pollution. The greenhouse effect is taking place, and it is not healthy for plants and other living organisms. I think it is wrong to hurt living beings, including ourselves. We all know of the problem, yet we don't do anything about it.
Jaylin Chrystal
Greensboro
Comments (3)
Amen!
Posted by mike covey | February 20, 2005 6:06 PM
I am shocked--shocked!--to see the poor quality of environmentalist propaganda that our high school students are spewing forth. The ozone layer? That's so yesterday. Why not complain about the Silent Spring, or Nuclear Winter, or Acid Rain? I think the whole ozone thing imploded when environmentalists couldn't decide whether there was too much ozone or too little, and so decided to focus on the greenhouse effect--I'm sorry, global warming (a nice correction, by the way, since greenhouses are so--well--ORGANIC).
But even propaganda has to be done correctly, and the argument here that ozone depletion is caused by littering--littering!--fails the laugh test. In the future, please ensure that all end-of-the-world scenarios conform to some minimal causal standard.
Posted by scott | February 21, 2005 12:14 AM
Whatever you might think of Jaylin's letter or high-school environmental propaganda, Scott, the fact remains that the issue of ozone-layer depletion has not "imploded." Quite the contrary. You can get more information at this EPA page.
Posted by Lex | February 21, 2005 10:13 AM