The Red Hill

The land rumbles and moans under the chain-linked legs of heavy equipment.
Trees scream in terror as their roots are riped from the ground.
The unyeilding earth is trampled and packed down until it can no longer support life.
The river revolts and floods the valley, leaving the workers helpless and their money making machines disabled.
The pavement covering ancient spirits that haunt the city.
The sacred flame
....................put out
The tree sitters sitting
The protestors protesting
Dilligently
Relentlessly
"You will not win!"
The ignorant bastards shout out,
"We need this or we cannot progress!"
Their ironic statements a product of their backwards thinking.
We do need a road.
A road to accomodate for a long tradition of:
Efficiency = Profit
Destruction = Progress
We'll get what we want, now, no matter what the cost.
We do need a road,
But not here and not like this.

I am becomming more and more surprised by the amount of people who just throw things out without even thinking about it. The amount of waste we produce is rediculous and unreasonable. It's really easy to reduce waste, it only takes a minute bit of effort, a small amount of thinking and a little bit of care.
When i was younger (before my youngest brother was born) our family only made half a bag of garbage a week. We recycled way more then we sent to the landfill, we also composted and burned things like icecream boxes.
Since we live in the country, the city gives us one of the larger recycling boxes (i don't know why, perhaps it is because country people are more environmentally consious and recycle more), but it still isn't big enough, we have two other makeshift blueboxes that are just as large as the original one.
Since we live on this earth and need to continue to live on this earth in the future, we need to be responsible in how we use it. If our environment is taken care of, our quality of life will be higher and we will enjoy it much more. I don't think that this is a useless cause, many things have already been done to clean up our messes and improve the way we treat the environment and view waste. The world is not a giant garbage can and it doesn't have to be.
Here is some information about what you can do.
Here is some interesting information about what you can recycle.
Here is some information about plastic recycling.

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