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Young Environmentalist
"I spent a weekend attending - you guessed it - an environmental conference."
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By Ursula Mehl
Teenagers are not typically portrayed as serious environmentalists. Then again, I’m not your typical teenager.
This would probably explain why I spent a weekend attending - you guessed it - an environmental conference. The name of the conference was Bioneers (short for biological pioneers- clever huh?).
So while my friends were most likely still in bed, I was sitting in an auditorium listening to speakers talk about subjects ranging from youth incarceration to the miracles of mushrooms, and meeting people like Severin Cullis-Suzuki, who started her own environmental program when she was just 9 years old. I mean, when I was nine years old I was spending afternoons watching episodes of Clarissa Explains it All. I was not worrying about the current sate of the environment.
I didn’t understand how capable humans are of environmental destruction until my sophomore year of high school. I still have a lot to learn, but I’m more aware now than ever that the little decisions I make each day have real environmental consequences for the future.
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