We Need A New Smokey

In case you were wondering why there’s dog crap all over 189th street this is all you need to know:

The Bronx teen throws gum wrappers on the street, doesn’t reuse plastic bags from the store and doesn’t have a compact fluorescent light bulb in her bedroom.

A student at University Heights High School, the 17-year-old is like many of her friends in the neighborhood. They don’t care about environmental issues.

“Global warming is going to be coming thousands of years from now,” she said. “We’re not going to be alive, so I don’t care.”

“No matter what, I’m gonna die by growing old or getting shot or something,” said Brian Fermin, 12, of Middle School 206.

Some neighborhood kids said global warming is inevitable, and they don’t see how their involvement could help.

And some teens have other things occupying their minds.

“I am more about boys than I am about my environment,” Brittaney said.

Also, they said, no one they know recycles or even picks up trash from the sidewalk.