When I hear about these trees, I always automatically tink of enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree - so in that way, even the thought of those things takes me back to my childhood. But I also think that people in their 20's were educated very differently about the environment than even kids in the 90's and now. It was when the big conservation push was on in the media, and a lot more people cared about teaching kids to look after what we've got. Kids today look at me blank when I talk about how we collected aluminum cans for recycling, and got paid money for them (our school was part of a competition), and the cartoons (Captain Planet just to name one) and a whole host of other things. But then, the cynicism and disdain cut back in, and it all stopped fairly suddenly in the early to mid 90's. There's a lot more education about water conservation here in Australia recently, but that's only because things are so bad that if something isn't done immediately we wont have a water supply. I often wonder if those of us who were brought up in the 80's (often - and definitely in my case - by hippy children of the 70's) will be able to make a difference as we get older as a result of our more environmentally friendly up-bringing?
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Date: 2008-11-26 02:54 am (UTC)But I also think that people in their 20's were educated very differently about the environment than even kids in the 90's and now. It was when the big conservation push was on in the media, and a lot more people cared about teaching kids to look after what we've got. Kids today look at me blank when I talk about how we collected aluminum cans for recycling, and got paid money for them (our school was part of a competition), and the cartoons (Captain Planet just to name one) and a whole host of other things. But then, the cynicism and disdain cut back in, and it all stopped fairly suddenly in the early to mid 90's.
There's a lot more education about water conservation here in Australia recently, but that's only because things are so bad that if something isn't done immediately we wont have a water supply.
I often wonder if those of us who were brought up in the 80's (often - and definitely in my case - by hippy children of the 70's) will be able to make a difference as we get older as a result of our more environmentally friendly up-bringing?