Environment and Me

In elementary school we were taught about the destruction of the rain forests.  I was a depressed child because I thought the world was going to end, but mostly because I saw the suffering that going on at the hands of these companies who were cutting down the rain forests including the extinction of animals, and just mass killing.  The mass killing of all the trees and plants that took place and knowing that this area was actually providing the world with oxygen as well, was enough to make me think that by the time I was an adult, the world would be over.  In a small way, it is.  We have reached a point where it seems that we are unable to reverse our effects on global warming and we have no begun to increase our speed of destruction at an insane speed.  

People around me seem to be totally selfish and oblivious.  My best friends throw away recylable things just because it would be too "complicated" or they don't know how.  Instead of taking the time to figure it out, or just doing it when they know, they just throw away and say "I know I should but" or maybe they don't give an excuse.  I know I need to do better, but I have never thought that recycling was too much work.  I never even think about it when I recycle.  I do however think about it when I don't recycle.  If I throw something in the trash that's recyclable I feel gross and I just have this image of it going to a landfill.