On Wednesday 10/20/10 we had three speakers come talk to us about environmental issues. I arrived when the talk was already about an hour in but for the little time I was there, there were some key things that I got out of it. Some issues they touched on that I found interesting were the whole aspect of going green, and environmental injustice. One of the speakers said something that most of us probably never thought about. He said that “the earth is like a human and we have to be conscious about how we treat her.” How would you feel if people dumb oil on you,? do things that mess you up? Etc. And also they advised us to always try and view the bigger picture. We need to connect people with the disparity of the issue, because people are not seeing their faith, people cannot see what they are putting themselves into. Also speak up, like the example that was given about mosevile am not sure if I spelled that right, but the fact was that people knew what was going on but no one actually took the responsibility of speaking up. These people pay their taxes like everyone else but still live in horrible conditions. Lastly they encouraged us to use the tools we have to impact the world. For example the blogs we have we can use them to do something positive in our community. With that being said this session help me realize that there is injustice to the earth and we need to start speaking up about it.
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