Semester Essay 8: Prompt 22

Prompt 22: Carpooling, recycling and planting trees are all activities that are good for the environment. Write an essay convincing readers to actively participate in one of these activities.

There are many things that you can do in your neighborhood that can be considered fun. You could go to the movies with your friends, go to an amusement park, go to the park, or even go to the museum. Even though these are some very nice things to do, there is something that you could do that would help the environment and would help you as a person. This thing that I am talking about is a little thing called planting trees. Although this may seem very boring, I believe that everyone should start planting trees because it helps the environment, helps you become responsible as a person, and could provide for something handy in the future.

I believe that you should plant a tree because it helps the environment out. By planting a tree, you would be making the environment greener and would be allowing more oxygen in the air. The planted trees would add on to all the other green plants in our environment and would make the city more alive with nature. It would make the world more natural and nature like, like it should be. Since we exchange air with plants, if we plant a tree, we would be doing a favor for us and the plant and we would rely on each other to stay alive.

Planting a tree also helps you become more responsible as a person. Since you plant the tree, you would have to make sure that the plant has all of the tender love and care that it is allowed to get. You would have to make sure it does not die and grows to bear some fruit, if it is a fruit tree that you have planted. Since you would have to look after the planted tree, you would grow some skills in responsibility because no one but yourself would take care of your responsibility (unless you have a gardener that comes every day to your house.)

Planting a tree also has other benefits. Once the tree you have planted is grown big enough, you might be able to sit under it for shade on a hot day, have a picnic right underneath the tree, or even collect the fruit from the tree. Now, if you never have planted that tree in the first place, you might not have shade, a place to picnic, or a source of fresh fruit. See, that is why you should do the simple, environmental act of planting a harmless tree.

In conclusion you should go and plant a tree. Planting trees could help the environment, make you more responsible, and could prove handy once it has grown to full capacity. Planting a tree is simple and very environmental and you should do it so that one day you can have that nice mango and be able to say that you were responsible for that tree that produced it. So, what do you think about planting a tree right now? Do you feel like helping your environment out? Please say yes because if you do not a person could lose some oxygen because you did not plant a tree!