The earth is where we live. The environment is everything around us. Living things need water. Polluted air is harmful.
Trash pollutes the land and water.
People can recycle things. Bonda uses examples from her own recent life experiences to explore how circumstances can turn an environmentally sensitive person who wants to be an environmentally correct person into the occasional environmentally deadbeat person. Hope prevails, however, as awareness of environmental issues grows, as does the supply of and demand for environmentally correct solutions. These individuals are looking for a way to live their spiritual values, not related to any religion necessarily, but certainly so that their lives are meaningfully enriched. Cultural Creatives are leading cultural change and hold a common concern for the health of the planet for future generations.