When I was a kid, me and my friends honored the newly begun Earth Day by walking to school instead of taking the bus.Today it seems like such a futile gesture,but at the time (the early 1970s) in our youthful idealism we thought that we were actually accomplishing something. The trail we used to get to school was about two miles long and wound entirely through a forest.The trail and the forest are now long gone, replaced by houses, a shopping center, and little league baseball fields.
Hopefully, new generations are much more aware of environmental issues then we were 40 years ago, but I see no reversal in the trend of bulldozing natural lands to make more room for more people.
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