Remarks: A stroll through the wilderness gives the lie to the notion that today’s youth care about the environment. The high schoolers run over for lunch at the nearby rain-forest-killing fast-food outlets, then toss their wrappers willy-nilly on the ground in the wilderness, even though there are trash cans placed throughout. Every few weeks someone cleans it up, then it gets trashed all over again. It’s not like their parents are doing any better, but we had higher hopes for the future. Guess not.
Who’s Responsible?: A consumer culture that celebrates a fast-food industry that preys on kids.
This article appears in May 15-21, 2008.
First you say it’s consumer culture’s fault for preying on kids, and then you say it’s the kids’ fault. Which is it?
Right on, Spike. You can’t blame the “consumer culture” for the littering the kids are doing. Now, blaming the parents…the Coast might have something there. Who’s been churning out all these kids who think it’s just fine to toss their garbage on the ground?
Geez, it’s Dartmouth High… you’re lucky it’s just food wrappers and not crack pipes, syringes and shell casings.
Who in their right mind would go back there to clean it up? You’d likely get assaulted or murdered.