Asa and Julia on: Being Green

Asa is my little budding environmentalist. I have to carry around a large bottle of hand sanitizer just for him because wherever we go, he picks up trash. Styrofoam cups, plastic bags, cigarette butts, gum wrappers, bottle caps...anything. This morning, he found two cups and a couple of straws in a parking lot and promptly plucked them from the ground and deposited them in the nearest trash can.
"Great job, buddy," I said, holding my hand up for a high five, "You're a very responsible citizen."
""Mommy, why do people put trash on the ground?"
"I guess they just didn't feel like walking all the way to the trash can," I replied with a shrug.
""But that hurts the Earth!" he adamantly exclaimed.
"You're right. How does that make you feel?"
"Sad." He paused. "And it makes the Earth sad, too. People shouldn't do that."
"You're right."
"I'm always going to pick up trash," he said firmly. "I don't want the Earth to be hurt. I want people to stop hurting it and it feels good to clean it up."

This is where Julia piped up and chimed in...

"AND," she stated loudly, "if people keep putting trash on the ground, then there would be more and more and more trash, and it would fill up the Earth and cover the grass and get higher and higher until we wouldn't have any place to walk and then we'd have to move to another Earth...or drive back to New Jersey!"

Apparently, according to Julia, Arkansas and New Jersey aren't just worlds apart...they're not even on the same planet!