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I've been thinking lately as I walk to school in the mornings that children are the future. (Most) parents and the rest of society raises them with the upright values of respect and courtesy, among others. In school, we're taught that we can be who we want to be, and that it is our job to take responsibility to change the world for the better.

With these things in mind, it is with a heavy heart that I notice the trash--bottles, empty cigarette packs, cups, etc.--littering the sidewalks in front of the college's sorority and fraternity houses. This is what has become of the children raised in the green sweep of the 1980s and 1990s. They are too busy to worry about the planet and saving the world. They are not here because of some undying passion for learning and bettering themselves; they're here for the good times and the proof that they did something with themselves after the black hole of high school, but they rarely learn about life, only about living in the moment. Instead, they move on into the same workplaces as their mothers and fathers, only to repeat the cycle over.