I think that one of the pre-eminent issues facing my generation is best described as, "So what are we going to do about this environment thing?" Kermit the Frog may have said that "it ain't easy being green," but that's really irrelevant: we need to be green.
To paraphrase something William Shatner might say, if my generation went insane and elected him as our spokesman, "We need to go green... we. need. to. go. green. The fate... of the... world... depends, on it." Now, to put that more gently, I really hated paying $4 a gallon for gasoline last summer.
Now, I don't know much about how to do that. But I surf the internet a lot so I promise to research these things. And I don't mean, develop enough knowledge to get by. I mean, muddy my boots with the knowledge I gain. If that's what it takes.
Now obviously, going to a school like MUM, I absorb a lot of green information simply through osmosis. Being one of the first schools in the nation to implement a Sustainable Living major makes them pretty cutting edge, I guess. And having organic meals availabe for every meal in the cafeteria is pretty awesome, admittedly. So I'm definitely in the right place.
But enough of such serious considerations. I just wanted to write a little blurb about a turning point in my intellectual/ self-actualizing efforts. I figure this will be the most integrative and important issue when my peers are running things in a few years. Aside from, you know, the fact that our world is becoming a band box.
-On a lighter note, having owned three felines, there has to be some way to harness the awesome power of cat hair. Cats shed in direct proportion to how annoying it is, so I say we just put a million mannequins with black clothing in a room with ten million cats and let the Woodstock of shedding commence. Once we figure out what to do with all that hair, that is.
This all leads me to a metaphor, so here goes: The green turtle of environmental reform and progress needs help from the lolcat of innovation and alternative fuel. Indeed, poor burdened turtle, no, it ain't easy being green. But the kitty is there to point out the finish line if only we look to him. Plod on, dear turtle, plod on! The fate... of the... world... depends on, it.
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