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On the saveoaks website, there's a picture of a child standing in the Oak Grove that is in danger. Next to her is a cardboard sign that reads: "Mommy, what were trees like?" I think there is room for all of us in this debate. Tech wise, we've reached a point to where the next generation may never die. (As in, we have the technology to keep people alive forever.) Which beggs the question, is death a natural part of life, or is it like a desease, aimed at gross extermination.

If we could all live on earth forever, we still need trees, oceans with temperatures that won't kill the animals that live in them and clean air to breathe.

I believe a lot of the change we want to see in the world comes from within. It's easy to blame a corperation or even capitolism and walk a way, saying, "there, I did my part." However if we don't teach eachother that the enviornment is something of value, that open spaces are being threatened, and that we are all harming the globe and will make ourselves extinct if these shadows remain unchanged, then we are kidding ourselves. We are pretending that glaciers aren't melting at an alarming rate. We are pretending that we don't need clean air to breathe. We have forgotten what it is like to stand in a natural growth forrest and just exist. And it would be a shame if our great great grandchildren stand in the last protected park on Earth, staring at a battered, weed of a tree and feel no shame and no pitty, and no sence of wonder or connection to the plannet some once called home.

It's too late to point fingers. We need to change what is happening. The approach needs to be holistic. It can not simply be a "Change One Thing" approach. It has to focus on many things. We need to eat healthy. We need to protect the envoirnment. We need to be aware of the effect we have on others every moment. We listen to what people are really saying. We need to help those who are in need of it. We need to donate what we do not use. We need to spend less. We need to be aware and responsive to the needs of others. And, yes... we need to facilitate the value of these things to our children. Children instinctivley know these values, but we dim them by taking them to McDonald's every week, by watching the same television networks, by only reading one part of the newspaper, (only reading one newspaper), by buying organic food but letting it rot on the counter, by telling them the enviornment is important, but never taking any action to save it