Reforesting with Ecosia: How Small Contributions Can Do The Most Protective Environmental Action
It’s easy to fall into a downward spiral thinking about climate change these days. Many of us remember first learning about it in elementary school, when the teacher would herd us to the auditorium once a year because the school principal would invite a special speaker to tell us about global warming. The speaker would tell us about how the Earth was sick, and how the environment was being destroyed by human recklessness, and that we were the only ones who could save it. The speaker would flip through a slideshow with a picture of two polar bears on one slide, huddled on a melting iceberg, and a seagull on another, with its neck stuck in a plastic six pack ring. Seeing a place stripped of it trees was always the saddest part. As kids we might’ve cared and just felt helpless about it. Some of what those guest speakers showed us might’ve struck a chord with us, and we would’ve signed up to collect litter with our parents for a couple odd weekends, or paid a little more attention to...
