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For someone my age, the future should seem so distant and unreal that I shouldn't worry about it. However, in this day and age my generation is being bombarded more and more with pressure to do the right thing for the environment, and the sad part is that we are not backed up by our parents. The people who are supposed to be responsible and act upon our world's environmental problems don't seem at all concerned that their grandchildren may never see a glacier and they're great-grandchildren may never see snow. We are asking for a pandemic.

In this country it is looked down upon to care. "Tree-huggers" and "hippies" are a couple terms coined at people who give up their spare time that could be spent with their families to stand on a street corner in the middle of December and hold a sign asking whether or not you think a snowflake is worth saving. Humankind prides itself on it's ability to solve problems and create great things that were previously deemed impossible. Unfortunately we seem to have lost touch with the human dream and replaced it with the "American dream", and even that has been twisted and tortured into a Smeagol-like creature, a disease, an absolutely self-centered ideal. Your big truck may look cool now, but in time all that will be left is a hunk of metal and massive damage to our o-zone. All anyone can do is ask you why this does not matter to you.

Mtv has launched a new campaign pleading with children to make a diference. And, luckily, the world surely is getting smaller. This message reaches out to millions upon millions of teenagers and they listen as well as any teenager would, but we know that teenagers never really listen to anything they are asked to do. It is the adults' job to take charge of this problem. They must alter themselves in order to set an example for any amounts of generations to come after them. Turn off lights. Recycle paper. Any small step will count, no matter how small you may feel this world, and I assure you that there will be no regrets.

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