I have always had animals in my house and even sometimes outside of my house (my family had an outdoor cat who regularly came over for dinner and sometimes we even cater raccoon meals) and I've always loved animals. I got really into environmentalism in 6th grade, actually after watching An Inconvenient Truth and immediately signed up for Greenpeace and the Humane Society and a number of other political organizations that are aimed at protecting the environment and animal rights. I actually called and emailed my representatives and other government officials multiple times over the course of my middle school career in hopes of passing or preventing certain legislation to protect whatever crusade was at the forefront at the time. I became much busier when I entered high school but I still think protecting our environment is very important.
Though it seems obvious, the earth is everything we have and the only thing we have, as human beings and living things in general. The notion that people are knowingly destroying the environment is completely idiotic. It's like wrecking your own home and doing irreparable damage, all while being aware that moving is not an option. Understandably business is easier and more profitable if there is no required clean up or preventative measures, but the benefits to protecting the world, the only world we have (we're definitely not living on the moon yet), far outweigh the costs. Only now are people starting to feel the effects of the detriment caused (in global warming and increased frequency of natural disasters, for example) but we are not yet doing enough to remedy the ruin we have set on the environment. Without the earth, we have nothing. Literally nothing. Attitudes need to change and people need to start recognizing the greatness in what they have been given.
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