Think about what the world is going to be like twenty years from now; is it going to be the exact same? No, the world is constantly changing every day, just like people. Now ask this question, is it changing for better or worse? The world today has lost hope. The world has lost hope that there are people who will be brave enough to stand up and fight against the increasing climate and environmental crisis in today 's world. They assume they’ll be gone when it starts to really affect them, so why should they worry? Think about future generations of kids, they have to deal with what people today do to the world and have no choice in the matter. It’s up to people today to make a real change in the world.
Sandra Steingraber, ecologist, and cancer survivor, finds her passion in researching and writing about environmental effects on cancer. In her recent essay, “Despair Not”, she went in depth about how many childhood illnesses are linked to toxic chemicals being exposed to the environment. Steingraber wanted to raise awareness on this issue by targeting an “everyday people” …show more content…
That means kids years from now may never get to see animals that are around today. Steingraber points that out in the opening lines of her essay. She states, “What will we say when our grandchildren ask us the names of the departed? Or, by then, will the loss of favorite animals be the least of our worries?” (744). She’s comparing the extinction of animals to the Elijah Lovejoy story that was mentioned earlier. Elijah Lovejoy could have given up hope and saved his own life, but he would rather spend his last days making a difference to carry on for people when he’s gone. That’s exactly what Steingraber is trying to get across to the reader. Elijah had hope up until his last moment. Hope that what he did during his lifetime would affect his kids and their grandkids one day. People in today’s world have given up hope, and hope is exactly what we
Sandra Steingraber, ecologist, and cancer survivor, finds her passion in researching and writing about environmental effects on cancer. In her recent essay, “Despair Not”, she went in depth about how many childhood illnesses are linked to toxic chemicals being exposed to the environment. Steingraber wanted to raise awareness on this issue by targeting an “everyday people” …show more content…
That means kids years from now may never get to see animals that are around today. Steingraber points that out in the opening lines of her essay. She states, “What will we say when our grandchildren ask us the names of the departed? Or, by then, will the loss of favorite animals be the least of our worries?” (744). She’s comparing the extinction of animals to the Elijah Lovejoy story that was mentioned earlier. Elijah Lovejoy could have given up hope and saved his own life, but he would rather spend his last days making a difference to carry on for people when he’s gone. That’s exactly what Steingraber is trying to get across to the reader. Elijah had hope up until his last moment. Hope that what he did during his lifetime would affect his kids and their grandkids one day. People in today’s world have given up hope, and hope is exactly what we