The environment has me thinking..

I have been thinking so much about the direction of Catholicism and the seven sins, but I keep imagining places where man doesn't seem to have tainted the land too much. Very natural, open spaces. At the same time I have been reading so much about environmental law, at some point they kind of converged and made sense to me. I mean the way in which we blatantly, vulgarly interact with the land can be directly related to the seven deadly sins. The ethics that we lack in terms of the environment is something that has been really bothering me lately. Kyle also had some fantastic suggestions for me about not necessarily structuring seven images to all relate to a sin, but blending the sins into a few images- mostly to avoid one word solutions. With that in mind, I have been thinking of basing my project more on a critique of how we "beautify" our environment in terms of ethics. One image that wont leave my mind is wrapping a tree in gold wrapping paper because clearly that is way prettier than a tree left the hell alone. This law class is going to turn me into such a hippy!