There were public forests that were free to walk in, filled with the raw diversity of untouched beauty that allowed us to fill ourselves with spiritual rebirth. National forest that you could walk for days and not see some evidence of the rapacious nature of greed in its clear cut zones, discarded industrial junk and/or waste and abandoned oil rigs. This is while the awesome tropical forests in south america are being burnt to clear grazing area for hamburger. Testimony to an orgy of harvest done with a hack saw...

We see the ice shelves break up as temperatures and sea levels rise.

We see the satellite pictures of increased atmospheric pollution which is now universal.

We hear about the deliberate poisoning of once livable land area with depleted uranium as we endure the lingering effect of decades of open air nuclear testing as well as releases of this inviable killer as the discoveries of the events at Three Mile Island, Hanford, Chernobyl and all the others become evident.

It's always worth a good laugh when you see a Hummer with one passenger cruising past you in heavy traffic, confined by the other single drivers in motor homes, SUVs, trucks and cars with a foot on the brake or throttle. Ha ha. Burn baby, burn.