Activisim: Abortion

In the reading “Julia ‘Butterfly’ Hill,” Stephen Browning talks about a young environmental activist who fought hard to save redwood forest trees. Julia Hill had an accident in August 1996, which almost got her killed. When that accident happened, Julia realized and said to herself “There’s got to be something more.” After that accident, Julia became a famous environmental activist. Julia Hill succeeded in saving one of redwood biggest trees “Luna” by living there for two years and eight days. Julia did not stop trying to protect the environment. In fact, she went to Ecuador to try and stop an oil pipeline company from cutting down trees, but she did not succeed.
When I first knew about Julia Hill and her story, I was completely stunned. I had a lot of question; how did she pull off staying there for two years? What did she eat? What did she do to spend that long time? It must have been very crazy to her. I cannot imagine her experience in the trees alone in the night without someone to talk to. Although it was an insane experience, I do approve of hill’s action. Julia Hill had that clarity of doing something good in her life to people and other living things. She fought really hard for a purpose that she truly wanted.
To other people hill’s action was stupid and meaningless, because she fought for something that don’t move or feel. However, it must have got them thinking; why did she feel so strongly about this issue? On the opposite side, there are a lot of people that felt hill’s action was heroic and inspiring. Due to this action, I believe that there are a lot of people who are motivated to fight for what they feel strongly about. When I watched the documentary, which is known as “Butterfly,” I thought about her point of view of life and I believe that she is right, there is a lot more in our lives than saving money or thinking what to do for the weekend. Julia also did a big favor to a lot of environmentalists out there, because she showed other people