How do you want your future to be? Of course you want it to be bright and full of success. Well if you don't pay attention and lean about your environment, you can potentially hurt. When you don't know about how to reduce, reuse, and recycle, you will be hurting the Earth and causing your future not to be so bright. So the reason why you want to learn about ecology, is so that your future and the Earth's future can be bright.