The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

My name is Sonia Contreras and I've been enrolled in Mrs. Hicks' stretch class my whole freshman year and I can definitely say it has been a pleasure having her as an instructor. We have discussed pollution, food, water, nature in LA, Corporations, Religion, Environmental Injustice but overall it all comes down to the Environment. We have been focusing more on the environment because everything after all leads to the environment we all live in. We were assigned to read the novel Parable of the Sower, when discussing the issues with both water and the environment.
The Parable of the Sower is a very interesting novel because it was actually written as form of the future. It is definitely a dystopia because it is warning us on how bad our environment will be in the future if we continue to use water the way we do. I believe the message behind the Parable of the Sower is that we need to switch the lifestyles we are used to because we are killing the environment slowly. We seem to take everything for granted and we don't see the negative side of things when we consume too much of something. For example, California doesn't have enough water, yet people continue to take long baths, leave the water running when brushing their teeth or when washing the dishes, or even when watering the plants, and washing their cars. It doesn't make any sense how people don't find anything wrong with the way they live and how they continue to take advantage of the environment. We might not see the damage right away, but as the years pass by we will see and begin to regret how much water we have wasted over the years. This is a big problem because we don't have enough water right now, and so this means we definitely won't have enough for the future.
This all eventually leads to where we might be 50 years from now. I see our future similar to Parable of the Sower because we will definitely not have enough water for everyone. If we don't have enough water for everyone we can definitely expect water to be more expensive then gas. Gas prices keep going up and the economy is bad already which makes it hard for everyone to find jobs. The question is what can the future really have in stored for us 50 years from now? I highly doubt that there would be anything to look foward to when we continue to take and take from the environment. We use or in other words, we waste water like there is no tomorrow. And if this continues the future will be full of poverty and that is for sure a fact unless we turn the way we live around. We all need to start to use of the environment carefully and more importantly take care of it. We can't afford to abuse of the environment, and therefore we need to act now by consuming less water and taking care of the environment as a whole. Let's see Octavia E. Butler's novel Parable of the Sower, as a warning from the future, and therefore, lets change for the good of our future. Thank You.