Reply #1: My hope is that people start asking why poisons are being created in the first place.

[Gregorian]

Hearing about your encounter with that son who tried to pin a demonized label on you, gave me insight into my own life. I found it hilarious. That kind of thing is a great freedom. One I have rarely experienced. I'm emotional, and tend to run away from those kinds of situations in a rush of adrenaline. I've learned so much from this forum. That is an example of one. I am slowly gaining an ability to do just what you are attempting to do. I can fight back now.

There is a step I think most people don't take. I saw it with logging. Spikes in a redwood tree. Trees are being cut, leaving devastation to what was diverse ecosystems. Mining. Poisonous dumps. Whether or not these are done in a legal fashion or otherwise is part of what you've mentioned here. But I dearly hope that those young people see what very few see. Why these things happen in the first place. This shouldn't be a difficult thing to understand or discuss. Ultimately we are placing the order. Each of us with every little individual thing we do is magnified through the multiplicity of our combined demands to the very results that you are working on. It's a transitional time in the history of the human being. The planet was infinite until recently. Now it's finite. And very quickly it will be insufficiently small. We must take the next step of questioning. What have we done to the environment. But then ask how was it created. Not just how to clean it up, and dispose of it properly.