Huggin' trees

So I've been laying in bed listening to the rain fall and I started thinking........thinking about nature, the Earth, and the way we as a society live our lives on the Earth. Now, I know the planet isn't shrinking, but the human race is getting larger and there's only so much room to go around. In fact, it seems like everywhere you go there's land being bought and sold, built on, drilled into, and everything else you can imagine. I mean, I hate to be all Jonie Mitchell, but they really did "pave paradise and put up a parking lot." Everywhere!

Okay, so where am I going with this? I know I might be exaggerating a little bit, but something has to be done about the evironment and how we're living in it. Even Al Gore made a documentary about it; okay more specifically, Global Warming. I know the car companies are coming out with the hybrids, and I must admit that I wouldn't mind having one, but what about all the rainforests that go down everyday and the smog, pollution, and even our waste? What are we going to do when we wake up and see the Earth wasted away?

Now, I don't think this is going to happen anytime soon, but with the knowledge we have of the world today (which is more than the days of the Industrial Revolution, which didn't make matters any better), we need to realize now, more than ever, that things need to change. I know some people out there are already trying to help, but not everyone. We need to focus on the big picture - the future. What will happen 20, 30, 100 years from now, I don't know, but judging by the state of things, its hard to have a sunny outlook. Will the fossil fuel supply be gone, will the polar ice caps melt, is this all make believe? I don't know, but get your recycling bins out, we have work to do!