I think everyone would fall in love with the natural beauty of Ithaca when first came to Cornell but not many people would take a step further to help protect the nature. We normally assume that the nature runs on its own and recovers on its own. While the nature looks all good but there’s some invisible threat to the farmlands, forests, grassland and gorges that we might ignore.

We’ve experienced a couple of times that all dining instead of using tablewares are using the plastics plates and utensils due to the low water quality. Also I heard some of my friends saying that the tap water was sometimes brown last summer due to some pollution. I would say the threat is always there and we cannot rely on the nature itself to recover. We must also do something proactively and positively to help build a better nature.

As Andy mentioned, there’re actually a lot of ways to help establish the awareness of nature conservation. I would probably visit the nature places first which some are really not far from the campus and share with more people what I’ve learned in the talk and on the website. What’s really great is there’s actually somebody in the society taking pressuring the nature as a job seriously and definitely doing a great job. Hope there would be more people in this career!