Make an Impact - raise your voice!

I was in my 12th grade economics class and we were talking about supply and demand. Anyway, one thing led to another, and the teacher was asking about things that people need to survive. A student brought up that gasoline was a need; a basic necessity to live and survive. Well, I stood up for all the thoughts in my mind and brought up the "absurd" idea that people can bike or walk... (Heaven forbid people at my school get out of their Mercedes...) and fought to the death that gasoline is not a need, that it was a want. Now, I am not talking like a little polite classroom conversation. I am talking 32 very heavily opinionated people (teacher included) against me...and I won. I used statistics from hearing David Radcliff's facts and shot their ideas about what is necessary in life down to the ground. I planted the idea that the earth does not NEED for the government to drill in Alaska , and that you do not NEED to buy bottled water. I know I am bragging, but I felt like it was one small step for me...one hopefully large step for the earth's kind...

-Jillian Wagoner, LeMoyne PA