Submitted by mcoker on 08/24/2011 10:05 AM Flag This Paper
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Musu Coker
Professor Jones.
English 101
6/22/2011
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Red, White and Green.
Lately so many natural disasters have been happening around us. Millions have died over the past two years. For example the earthquakes in Haiti and tsunami in Japan. The flood that displaced so many people in New Orleans. These are all things that we cannot stop. What we can do is to keep trying hard to prevent these things from happening. The best way for us to do this is to go green. The government needs to make it law, to let all Americans that we must go green to protect our planet. The rest of the world will surely follow. We only have one planet. If we don’t work hard to protect it, who will? Not the animals certainly.
First, we can start this processing of going green by recycling. Twenty-five percent of Americans don't recycle. That is a number too many. Most of us like to eat or drink when we are walking down the street. After we are done eating or drinking, we just throw the trash on the floor. Some of us see the trash on the floor, we just walk right past it and do nothing about it. We have decided on simple code which is, if it is not my mess then why should I have to clean it up? That is the mentality that most of us have. If we did not create it, then it then it is not our problem. Some of us are not making the effort to buy recycling cans. Most Americans are not in
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reusing. We buy too much unnecessary stuff. We don't like to use the same things more than one time. Why use something old when we can just go to the store and get a new one. Cars are another source of abuse towards the environment. We ride our cars in places where we can easily walk to therefore causing pollution by infusing carbon monoxide into the atmosphere, harming our ozone layer. Some smoke cigarettes. Making the air that we breathe dangerous. We don't need to buy everything brand new. We can...