Living with nature

Early on in my childhood I was taken by my parents in to our local nature reserves, historical land marks etc, I live in a part of the UK that's very rich in history and nature, with places such and Hadrian's wall, the lake district and Kielder forest on my door step. So I was taught very early to respect these beauty spots but to be honest I find it hard to believe that anyone couldn't...however you can go in to these amazing places and still find litter and rubbish that people who supposedly come to enjoy these places leave behind.
Is it so hard for people to just put their rubbish in their pocket and place it in a bin? we have enough of them so there really is no excuse. It's disgusting you visit somewhere beautiful and green and there's always an empty packet of crisps in your view.
I believe so much that it's important to protect what beauty we have in this world and to appreciate it, there are ways we can build that works with nature rather than against it. I know that there are many people who share my views and do what they can to try to help with cleaning up but there should be so much more to prevent people from littering and fly tipping to begin with.

I visited an area around Doncaster yesterday, it's a very beautiful and green area, I saw woods, canals and small lakes. However I also saw mounds and mounds of rubbish left by fly tippers, there wasn't a road side wood that wasn't full of the stuff! I thought my own area was bad but it's nothing compared to what I saw in Doncaster.

(some web examples of fly tipping)

The other aspect that disturbed me was the yellow clouds from all the power stations, it was a frosty still air kind of day and so the smog was hanging in the air. Being there gave me the same feeling as being in a smoke filled bar, where you know it's damaging your health but you're willing to put up with it for the short time you're there. (Gods I'm looking forward to the smoking ban coming to England)
We really have to start looking in to alternative ways of creating electricity, I'm all for windmills and solar energy, I can't understand when people say they don't want windmills being a blot on the landscape, Windmills are great! I'd rather have those than a nasty big power station! We should do more to promote cleaner energy sources.