 "Photo: David Walker")
 "Photo: David Walker")
Our environment is crying, yet we hear no voice. It is heartbreaking to see how we the students have allowed the Rancho Cucamonga campus to become. It is especially important to be concerned with our campus not only for the selfless reasons we should have, but for our own benefits.
Trash makes the immediate surroundings ugly when students throw their trash on to the parking lot. Where does the trash go? The answer lies where-ever the elements take it, often ending up in our waterways and then to the ocean.
The world’s largest land fill is not on land at all; it is in the ocean. “The Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch” is composed of two sections, the west and the east. The east portion is between California (1000 miles off coast) and Hawaii, and the west portion is between Hawaii and Japan.
Just imagine you’re swimming along and see a cool looking odd shaped object. You like it so you begin playing with it. Everything’s cool, right. Having fun? Trying the object on your rostrum may have been the last activity that you consciously do; all you are worried about now is “How am I gonna get this thing off?” Sadly, you never do and could guess your fate from there.
Trash that is simply thrown out the window has to go somewhere! As it rains, the trash is washed down storm drain and channels to the ocean. If trash does manage to stay on land, the same dilemma could take place to a curious animal innocently frolicking.
Why do other creatures have to suffer for our negligence? Do they not have a right to life just as we do? If individuals who are pursuing a higher education act so inattentive, one could only imagine how the rest of the population is going to act. To simplify it, literers should drive next to waste and recycle bins which are all over campus, and clean their cars there. Make mommy nature proud!
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