Student Essays, Opinions & Other Insights on a Sustainable UMD 2013-2014 Academic Year | Page 21

Morgan Bachman

Major: Environmental Science and Policy and double
minor in GIS and French Studies
Class of 2014
I personally signed up for the “What Will You(md) Do?”
Sustainability Pledge because I think it’s a great opportunity for
myself and other participating members of the campus community
to reevaluate our highly consumptive daily behaviors. Far too often
I read negative opinion articles by pessimistic authors who
stereotype the millennial generation as text-obsessed, morally
stunted and generally disinterested in attaining classically accepted
life achievements. Sustainability is important to me because I
believe, quite on the contrary, that the majority of this country’s
young adults are some of the most optimistic, socially progressive,
environmentally responsible people alive at