No Future Without the Environment

In just the last fifty years, humans, namely Americans have virtually remodeled the Earth and everything on it. We have changed its landscapes, wind patterns, migration routes, and weather; diminished its greenery and killed its animals. Nature did not seem a force that could be controlled and yet it has been. We are conducting an inadvertent global experiment by changing the face of the entire planet. We are destroying the ozone layer, which allows life …

…last natural, pristine ecosystem, in North America, namely that of Alaska, is in danger of being ruptured by the ever-powerful oil companies. I do not understand why the heads of state that are infinitely more knowledgeable than me on the dangers of continued abuse of our gracious home do not drastically and immediately cause change. Surprisingly, why haven't people listened to our environment? I guess it is because they are not twenty-four going on thirty.