Yellow Paint

The topic of yellow paint that was brought up in Kohak's book was very interesting. I liked how the destruction of the earth caused by humans and humans lack of acknowledgment in order to fix it was referred to as yellow paint. I think the book really opened my eyes to how much we do really just tag things as problems but decide to deal with them later but never actually get to them. As far as the environment goes, I think there are a lot of people who "procrastinate" with the problems in the environment especially. It seems like they just think that if they ignore them they may go away or someone else will take care of them since they have marked them with "yellow paint". Our impact as humans on the entire world has greatly increased just as our population has. The more humans there are on earth, the more "nature" suffers from it. This is obvious when you look at how the landscape has changed since the pilgrims first came to America. Every since the Pilgrims landed here, the original land here in America has been destroyed gradually. Humans have known that many things that we do is destructive to the earth but it is often justified. The justification varies, but a few examples are that it is necessary for humans to live or that it is necessary for "progress". The term "progress" needs to be altered some if we want to be able to continue existence in the long run. The term "progress" has meant for a long time doing whatever it takes to have a better human life. This idea has not thought about the damage that many progressive actions have caused to the environment and animals. Today, the impact we are making on other nonhuman things has started to be incorporated into progress. I think that we still need more of this because we are running out of yellow paint, and when we do run out, will we even be able to fix the problems that we covered up with the yellow paint?