Julie and the Eagles

The entire story centers around ecology, as Julie finds a baby owl on the grand and takes it to a center for caring, then is introduced to some eagles. The eagles have two young, and one of the adults had an injured wing. The person heading the rescue center is concerned that, unless the eagles are released into the wild relatively soon, they will have to go to a zoo since they will be unable to adapt to again being in the wild.

Julie and her friends work as hard as possible to raise money to build a tower that has a place where the eagles can stay for a time until they are ready to fly again in the wild. It's a difficult process getting the money, and they almost fail to get enough.

The main interest is the historical section, talking about the interest of people in the 1970's in the environment. Contrast that with how severely divided people are today in the U.S. about the environment, particularly in relation to the issue of global warming.

It seems to me that, in the seventies, people were able to acknowledge differences of opinion much more easily than in today's world, where differences of opinion are met with both verbal and physical violence. There also does not seem to have been a great deal of progress in relation to how humans get along with the environment.

It seems that people today are angrier and far less tolerant of different ways of thinking than in the 70's.

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