Looking back on this summer class, I came to the decision that I really enjoyed Colloquium. I came into the class with a bad mentality. I thought that as soon as I walked through the door I was going to get bombarded with a naturalist preaching that we must be sustainable or else the world is going to be coming to an end. Oh, how was I wrong. Dr. Morris was a good teacher, he gave us the information that the course prescribed to us but did not try and force his own opinion on us. He let us read the books, go on the field trips, participate in the class discussions, and then through that create our own opinions on what this whole "sustainability" thing is all about.
The conclusion that I came to was that there is not anything that one person can do. A single individual can grow their own food, bike to work, car pool whenever their in a car, and recycle every little thing they can find, but in the end there's going to be two others that are even less environmentally aware and offsetting that persons hard work. To truly create a cleaner planet we need to educate the people. The more people know about how they are effecting the environment the more likely that they will do something about it. Granted, there will always be the people that don't care about saving the environment for future generations but those of us that do want to provide a livable planet for our children need to try and reverse this mentality of not caring about the environment.
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