One scene from Emilio Estevez's film "BOBBY" has stuck with me. Estevez intercuts actual news footage of Bobby Kennedy interacting with the public and the public's perception of him with dramatic scenes of the film.
It is one of these news clips that has stuck with me: Bobby Kennedytalking to a class of children. He describes that it could be possible in fifty years for people to be walking the streets of New York City with gas masks, due to dramatic increases in pollution. Kennedy also describes that active steps need to be taken to curb automobile pollution and to curb the dumping of pollutants into waterways. The children keenly listening, they are today's adults.
It has been 38 years since Kennedy uttered these words. How far then have we progressed? How much damage been done? It was disconcerting almost, to hear Kennedy speak of such issues, because in all reality what has been done?
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