American environmentalists of the late 1800s served as environmental steward role models for people in the following generations. The thoughtfulness, passion, and original ideas in the written works of people like H. H. Bennett and John Muir are still famous inspirational messages. In the wooded area of Walden Pond State Park, for example, Thoreau’s quote, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived,” is printed into a large wooden plaque. This implies the extent to which his time spent in the area continues to be valued, even in a crowded state park where people are taking time off for themselves. The
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It provides three ways people living in a community can become more informed about the prevalence of chemicals and protect themselves from the negative health effects. First, one can obtain the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical dumping sight list - a record of each known sight and its location. To learn about the history of waste in a town and whether a chemical dumping site had existed there at any time, she suggests asking long-term residents. Lastly, writing the congressional representatives in an area to confirm information such as whether a close by railroad has hazardous substances avoids any reliance on false information. This seems to be a positive method for bringing people’s attention to the town’s need for help. It shows a drive to learn about and understand the issue, and also do as much as you can for yourself as well as for others by sharing the knowledge. Some other statements in the document, however, are ineffective in regard to these
It provides three ways people living in a community can become more informed about the prevalence of chemicals and protect themselves from the negative health effects. First, one can obtain the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical dumping sight list - a record of each known sight and its location. To learn about the history of waste in a town and whether a chemical dumping site had existed there at any time, she suggests asking long-term residents. Lastly, writing the congressional representatives in an area to confirm information such as whether a close by railroad has hazardous substances avoids any reliance on false information. This seems to be a positive method for bringing people’s attention to the town’s need for help. It shows a drive to learn about and understand the issue, and also do as much as you can for yourself as well as for others by sharing the knowledge. Some other statements in the document, however, are ineffective in regard to these