Editor's Award Essay: 15-19 Age Group

"The Environment is Complete Chaos: What I'm Doing to Help Save It"

Paul Silvasi
Wisconsin School for the Deaf
Delavan, WI

Our environment is doing pretty badly these days considering we have done very little to preserve it for so many years. So many people are careless when it comes to the environment, mostly because they really do not care. How does it affect them? Well, now people are starting to realize the consequences of their actions due to global warming. Although nothing serious has happened with global warming yet, I'm sure there will be chaos in the future if we do not take action to try and fix it now!

I try my best to help the environment. I recycle all the time. It's just a habit my parents gave me while I was growing up. Also, now that I have a license I will try to look for a car that is environmentally friendly. I wouldn't mind getting a hybrid, but that's kind of impossible for me since hybrids are expensive. My school also requires us to do volunteer work in the city. The school actually has a day dedicated to helping the environment. It's called DNR day, and all students from elementary to high school are required to go out to the town and help make it beautiful. We pick up garbage, plant trees, plant flowers; things to help the environment become beautiful! The environment is important to us because this is the place that we live! Think of the environment as your home. Would you like to have garbage thrown onto your floors? I doubt you would, because you want your house to smell and look nice! Why don't you do the same for the environment? It's important to keep our land fresh and beautiful for the sake of mankind. Seriously, we need to stop our wasteful habits! We need to buy fuel efficient cars, stop wasting so much energy, and stop littering! That's the most important thing you can do for the environment, just do not litter at all!

There are so many more things I can do to help the environment, but nothing will help the environment more than electing democrats for office. The Democratic Party tends to focus on how to save the environment and other worldwide issues. What has the Republican Party ever done to try to help the environment? Even George Walker Bush denied that we are going through a global warming crisis, even though there is proof of it! Our environment is important and we need to take special care of it! If we don't, then our future generation of children will suffer due to the horrible environment in which they live.