For all the complaining that I partake in during our never-ending season of snow, I realize that the snow has a hidden aesthetic purpose � to blanket the array of litter covering the ground. Now that the campus ground is clear of snow, the garbage covering the ground should glare back at every student, professor or any other passerby and stir up feelings of embarrassment for the outright environmental disrespect. However, this obvious display of crude carelessness does not seem to bother too many people on campus because if the litter was fully regarded, the problem would no longer exist.
The primary dilemma lies in the people who heedlessly drop their litter to the earth's surface as if it was a trash can. Somehow the purpose of a garbage can has managed to slip by these litterers' gifted minds and a new idea of garbage receptacle has emerged...the earth.
Respect for out planet has obviously been shoved to the back of these people's minds, or possibly completely out of their minds. Why the fact that the earth is a beautiful place is not apparent to some people boggles my mind. And how does trashing the earth take place of cherishing the earth?
Planet earth sustains the plants, the animals and even our selfish desires, so why does the planet continue to get abused? In order for the world to survive, we need to display our potentially intellectual sides and begin to respect the foundation that feeds us.
Next time you feel the need to lazily dispose your filth on the earth, think about how ignorant your actions are. This is the only place that we have and in order for it and everything that encompasses it to flourish we need to respect it and keep it clean.
Kristin Foss
Third year
Psychology
