Response to Derrick Jensen Excerpt - BH

"Or let’s talk waste. In 2005, per-capita municipal waste production (basically everything that’s put out at the curb) in the U.S. was about 1,660 pounds. Let’s say you’re a die-hard simple-living activist, and you reduce this to zero. You recycle everything. You bring cloth bags shopping. You fix your toaster. Your toes poke out of old tennis shoes. You’re not done yet, though. Since municipal waste includes not just residential waste, but also waste from government offices and businesses, you march to those offices, waste reduction pamphlets in hand, and convince them to cut down on their waste enough to eliminate your share of it. Uh, I’ve got some bad news. Municipal waste accounts for only 3 percent of total waste production in the United States." - D. Jensen


Truth of life
By: Sharktail
The amount of waste in America has grown over the years and will continue to grow unless someone steps up to the plate and lets everyone know that its not OK. In class we read a piece of an article that said if everyone in the united states did everything in there power to be Eco friendly it would only make up 3 percent of waste in America. That means that big factory's and company's are creating 97 percent of the waste. Its scary to think of how much waste is being made by the company's that we bye things from everyday. I truly think that the people here on this earth are slowly but surely destroying the earth. I think that it is our job as well educated citizens on this topic we should take a stand. Maybe we should take a trip to down town Portland and split up into groups and not only educate people in Portland about what we are doing to the earth but also we should pick up trash from off the streets and recycle whatever we can. I think that if adults see how much kids around the age of 13 and 14 care about our earth and and see that we are taking a stand that they might be inspired to also take a stand. Our guiding question for the year is What are the rights and responsibility's of a citizen. The rights and responsibility's of a citizen are to help out in the community and help educate people about our earth and the world around us.