Picture your perfect, family-based neighborhood, filled with barbecues, children playing, and people jogging. Most people would first think of bright colors and clean, spotless streets, certainly not garbage-covered sidewalks with a side-order of doggy “presents” left behind by uncaring pet owners. Unfortunately this is what my childhood neighborhood has come to. The cause of this growing epidemic is mostly blamed on younger generations, including those who move in lacking a connection to a community's history. At one level, we see this with the controversial issue of "gentrification," where people "improve" neighborhoods to their liking without considering what came before. Over time generations get more and more careless, slowly losing respect for the environment and organisms living in it.
Environment
Is It Possible to Save the Climate and Boost the Economy?
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A plan exists that will both preserve the climate and benefit the economy. Called Carbon Fee and Dividend, endorsed by bipartisan leaders, the plan features a fee, starting low and steadily rising, on fossil fuels, assessed where they enter the economy, at the well, mine, or border.