Going Green

Hey Lakota12 Believe it or not, lots of people do not recycle, they do not take environment issues serious at all. I wish most people did. I lived in Arizona for several years, and it was difficult to get those that lived on our base to jump on board with the recycling program. Most said, it was easier to toss out the trash and the extra five minutes it took to take your plastics and put it in the plastic bin the base provided, and take your paper waste and put that in the paper bin they provided, was too much work. Now, I'll be the first to admit that buying "Green" products can be a bit more costly. But, there are so many other ways to jump on board. Heck I remember the, what the doctors on base called, "CRUD" cloud and smog that hangs over some parts of Arizona. If people would maybe walk more, bicycle more, and carpool more---wow maybe that Arizona Desert would rid some of that polution. I guess I live overseas now (though my mother is still in Arizona), and I see how wasteful and overindulged we Americans can be compared to our host country. They bicycle everywhere, they walk everywhere, they buy organically grown and raised produce and meats, they compost and they recycle. But then, this is nothing they had to jump on a band-wagon to do, because it is learned behavior that is part of their culture. You are right about the over-populating of the Desert areas, and definitely more has to be done to preserve this.