One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

Aldo Leopold
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that...
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that...
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that...
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that...
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After reading The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman, I was struck by the idea that many of our everyday objects are not only useless, but actually harmful to the environment. We are overusing plastic bags because they are made out of petroleum, which is a fossil fuel. When we use these plastic bags, we pollute landfills and oceans around the world. Our waste is killing our planet. The same goes for many other products!

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  1. One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science...
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