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Is This Earth Day by ~Ashlyea:iconAshlyea:



Gaylord Nelson, I suppose like other men who had dreams, didn't want children in movie theaters (think of the gas) flicking skittles 55 to the bag with artificial flavors (think of the machines, the resources...) across at each others' bodies. The movie, I suppose like other documentaries of nature, didn't mean to provoke students to add their own commentary. These facts just are.

The schools don't have another place to throw their trash. Recycling bins go to the dumpster, and then to the landfills. Is the environment club aware of this when their posters go up month after month (think of the chemicals, the felled trees, the waste) in your hallway? You're aware of the facts they ignore. You're the principal. (Leather shoes and belt, paperwork, punishment, electricity)

Energy; the Law Of The Conservation Of Mass knows that it cannot be created or destroyed. For every less ounce of electricity we use to power our computers, can we say it's used somewhere else? With every graphite lead on sketch book paper, is the felling of a tree to make your paper compensated? Does nature constantly replenish herself with new, wondrous life?

Gaylord Nelson, like other men who had dreams, imagined these skittles (55 to a bag) in a child's hands about to be thrown. He imagined that she stopped, and thought otherwise. He imagined that possibly, outside of a movie theater, people were eco-conscious.

The schools can't concern themselves when there's much more then rubbish to sort out. Troublemakers need reform (punishment), and the good students produce too much paperwork... You look good to dictate your staff, and maybe yourself. Though bald, you still proudly roam the conscious halls and listen to rumors of misdirected garbage.

Energy you so passionately use to draw, is that your compensation? For every ounce of destruction, you replace with art. Art grows no trees unless you landscape (trimmers, clippers, lawn mowers, capital resources, green houses, seeds, factories, smog). Is every line you draw on your Wacom Tablet a compensation for the cost of construction? Eco-art? Recycled paper? It's hard to compensate for all the irony in the world.

Not enough people get the idea, including me. Hand me a skittle and I'll show you. (Reduce)

There's so many other concerns. Such as self-satisfaction. Such as authority, control, correction. You see? (Reuse)

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. How you go about it is entirely up to you. A useless stylus thrown out is not destroyed. It waits to decompose. (Recycle)
©2009-2010 ~Ashlyea
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Author's Comments

I hate all the commercials and posters made of waxy paper everywhere promoting the environment. Adding insult, or using pollution to promote eco-consciousness, to injury is a bad idea.

I think with saying those sentiments, this is a piece of showing irony in how what we SAY and what we DO is entirely different. (In non-fiction because its created out of actual things in/around my school and town.)

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

Happy Earth Day.

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:iconaryanatenshi:
Amazing, dear. <3

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Dance is the form of expressing emotion through our body. Photography is the form of artwork that captures a moment and keeps it in our hearts forever.
:iconashlyea:
Thank you, m'love <3

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"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune." -Noam Chomsky

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