We continue to fill landfills with millions of tons of trash while recycling only a small percent of what we use. We use harmful chemical fertilizers on our crops to make them grow bigger and faster and other harmful chemicals to kill the weeds that are also being stimulated into rapid growth by those fertilizers. And now we are adding to this mess with the new danger of genitically engineered life forms, both plant and animal. Already, without anyone informing us, many of the crops being grown are genetically engineered. A primary example is the very bitter tasting rapeseed oil which, thanks to genetic engineering, has been turned into canola oil which doesn't have the bitter taste that nature put in rapeseed to warn against eating this harmful plant. And now, thanks to a mixture of needed spending cuts and political idiocy, it appears the Environmental Protection Agency is going to loose much of it's already limited ability to protect the environment.

So in short, after almost fifty years, instead of the great leaps forward that were needed to truly protect our environment and keep it safe, lush and healthy for future generations, all we have accomplished is a few small baby steps that are not even enough to keep up with the continued damage that is being done every day.