The Green Halo

I really liked the metaphor the author used with the painter and the green halo. Just as the painter ran out of green paint so he had to use yellow, we are running out of our environmental resources. I think that many people think that the resources will always be there and that is not the case at all. They are quickly running out because our world is becoming very greedy, especially in the United States. Many people are guilty of not doing their part in taking care of the environment. In our country, we are very materialistic and judge ourseleves and others on what we have not who we are. Someone sees what their neighbor has and they want to have it bigger and better. We are a wasteful people and are using up 80% of all the resources with our small number of people. If we are going to continue using the world's resources at such a fast pace, we need to find ways to renew them or resources to replace them. Some people in the world are starving, even in our own country, and we do nothing to help them. We are a selfish people and care about our small lives and world, such as our families, our friends, our jobs, our possessions. I'm very guilty of this. I get so wrapped up in what is going on in my life and the people in my life, that I don't stop to think about what is going on with the people in the rest of the world or even sitting next to me. We should be sharing what we have with others. Also, we should become less wasteful and selfish so that these resources do not run out so quickly. We should be concerned with the fact that the future members of our family and the world may not have resources available to them because we are using them up at our leisure and not finding ways to be more efficient and using resources more sparingly.