The Journey Home Essay # 2 I decided to write about “God’s Plan for the State of Utah: A Revelation” because I have mixed feelings about it. The chapter starts out with Abbey riding his horse in the desert when he comes upon a strangely dressed man. The thing that Abbey does next perplexed me. He said that he hit his horse on the head with a lead pipe when it got out of line. I don’t know much about horses but I’m pretty sure there is a better method to show your horse who is boss than beating it. Then the strangely dressed man took off his shirt and had wings. This is where he started to lose me. I feel that this story is out of place. The message fits but the way he tells it doesn’t belong in this book. Up until now all of his stories have been true, or at least believable, and now it is like he took an acid trip. Well it turns out the guy is an angel and they fly around. The angel tells him that the industry needs to be shut down because it is ruining god’s earth. The angel said that the oil refineries had to be shut down because of all of the smoke they produced. I agree with the angel here, our nation relies much too heavily on oil. It pollutes our world and we are doing little to find a better fuel. The angel then makes a comment on how many people are living down there. This is a something that I noticed awhile ago but no one has ever said anything about before. I think that humans are very overpopulated. I think the only way to solve this problem is to talk about it and teach our children. I believe that humans are the earth’s biggest enemies. All other animals live in harmony with nature but humans do not. We destroy whatever we think we need many times without thinking about the effects our actions have on the rest of nature. We also multiply at such a fast rate that before long the earth will not be able to sustain us. The angel then said that the dam was bad. When I think of dams most of the time I think about the good they do for the people, not the...