I Have One Word for You, Benjamin...

Plastics

Once upon a time there was a little girl who was so mad that people were being unkind to the earth that she stopped people on the street and in the supermarket and told them how bad plastic was for the creatures of the world and did they know that sea turtles were dying because of our ignorance and selfishness and stupidity? Did they know that every time they bought something in a plastic container it was ending up on Midway and other islands in the Pacific Ocean and creating a giant gyre that keeps spinning around and spinning around out there and the birds dive into it and think the red floating things are food and they eat them and when their bellies are full of plastic, they cannot fit their accustomed diet of fish into their bellies and so they die of starvation. This little girl was so mad that she stomped around and stomped around being angry all the time at the stupidity of her fellow humans. 

Then she got an idea to use her anger as energy. She began to hand out postcards addressed to the plastic manufacturers and manufacturers of goods that got bottled in plastic and she asked the people she met to send the postcards to the companies to say they thought it was a very bad idea to sell their products in plastic containers that had only one use and then were tossed. She worded the postcards so politely that no one could refuse to help out the cause of reducing plastic streams from ending up in the ocean. Pretty soon, people stopped using plastic soda straws and one-time-only-use bottles and containers and pretty soon after that, people started taking their glass bottles to the bulk section, getting them weighed, filling them up with what they wanted to buy, and not long after, that became habit!  Not quite soon enough, but soon, the stream of plastic slowed and grew smaller and finally diminished so much that the people who cared enough to save the whales, dolphins, albatrosses and other sea birds and animals that were still alive, were able to dismantle the plastic mass out there in the pacific ocean little by little until it was all taken back to the mainland and awaited being eaten by mushroom spores or some other innovative natural reversal of turning the whole world into plastic. 

The next thing that made the little girl really mad was the globe getting warmer and warmer and she knew that it was due to carbon emissions mostly coming from cars burning fossil fuels, so again, she planned a postcard campaign and ...