I'm 14 years old, and i live in southeastern michigan. The main reason im writing you is because i cant get people to take anything involved with saving the earth seriously. when i say people i mean the kids in my class, but it scares me that if people take that attitude towards these kinds of issues then we're pretty well doomed. its not that i want to tell them how they should live there lives, its that i want them to at least try to understand what were in for if we continue to treat our world this way. i am hoping that since most of them will have read Ishmael by the time i go back to school, that it will have had some kind of impact on them. i dont really know what kind of response im expecting or if im going to get one, but i just wanted to see if there's any way i can get people to listen to me and you and all the others that seek freedom from the doom that is sure to come upon our world. • Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn