Go, captain planet!

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[...] This attitude also applies to many other activities. If you live in an apartment or dorm where utilities remain at one fixed rate, why would you then ever turn off the television when you leave or take shorter showers each day? The incentives seem so much smaller. When thinking about those who carpool or turn off their electricity and water, none come to mind that do such for environmental reasons. They recycle and they conserve to save on gas money and to save on that month's bills. [...]

[...] I think as the youths of this world become the elderly of this world, their attitudes change. Adults recycle more than kids. Adults care more than kids. Again, I think people don't recycle because they don't have to. Not yet at least. They feel why do this extra work if the same result follows. That's why communism fails in any country where the people implement it. It's why voting turnouts in our own country loom so low. This society wants fast results. [...]

[...] Go, captain planet! Looking back now, I can vividly remember my father making me open up the pantry door to take out the can I had just thrown away, so I could correctly put it in the orange recycling bag. This would occur multiple times throughout my childhood. can't we throw the cans away with all the rest of the trash?” I'd ask. “Because one day you'll have to write an English paper about he'd say. No, not really. Eventually, I would learn that these practices helped to save the Earth and protect the environment (huge concerns to a eight-year-old). [...]