The charming girl we met in the party on Saturday was called Whitney. She is one of Erik's friends. Through the conversation, we knew that she is a sort of environmentalist. She got a great sense of environment protection. For example, she always chooses to walk within short distance instead of driving her car, and when she buys stuff in the supermarket, she always looks for goods made in the local area which basically needn't be sent from far-flung areas through transportation.Her roommate was originally a person caring not so much about the environment issue, but has been transformed by her into someone who puts personal convenience and the benefits of surroundings in an equal position. Whitney obviously was pretty proud of what she had done to change people's minds around her. And I really appreciate her dedication to the protection of our environment.
This pushes me to think about another issue related to the same topic. Could human beings make the economic progress and environment protection go together? Are these two things always contradicting with each other? And why people usually choose to realize the maximization of material profits at the costs of poisoning the environment? Gore's film the unspeakable truth shows people how nature tends to revenge on the irresponsible deeds of human being, and I think we really should devote much time to solving this serious problem right now.