Can someone give me a list of high school/college classes that I should take if I want to become an ecologist?

As in, how do we learn to adapt to the environment ? Social Studies o__e

I’m only 14 but im really interested in helping the Environment.
Is ecology for me? What do they do? How much do they get paid in a year?

Is the environment worth giving up freedom for? Lets say you support the environment, but you live too far from work to walk or bicycle. This obviously means taking motorized transportation. If you travel in your own car you can take your firearm with you, but you’ll be polluting. If you travel by mass transit (bus, light rail, subway) you won’t be polluting, but you’ll be arrested if you take your firearm with you. Do we really need to give up our right to keep and bear arms for the environment? I don’t know about you, but I’m a US citizen and I want freedom.

We have a small amount of money and would like to help people gain access to clean water.

Which is easier cleaning up pollution or preventing it?

Our Ecosystem is very much disturbed by agriculture every year. If we waste less or no food, would this mean less pressure on our ecology and could mean more span of life on earth ?

I’ve heard different opinions. A big part of me wants to be an active participant in the work for a better environment. But some others seem to feel that getting rid of one means of pollution, for example, is only going to give birth to a new one. Will I be wasting my time worrying about the environment?

What do you think? ;o)

We want to move towards Green company and thus want some guidelines which we can have for employees to save environment.
Eg . Google subsidize the cost of vehicle if you opt for eco friendly vehicle which emits less pollution. Can i have some such interesting policy.

I recently moved to Texas from Oregon, and although I like Texas a lot i am completely appalled and disgusted by the amount of garbage that is spread all over ( and I mean everywhere!) the beach. Everybody here just seems to throw their garbage all over the beach. There isnt a clean area of beach to stretch out and relax on. I have seen dirty diapers, styrafoam cups, milkjugs, tall white buckets, wrappers, alcohol containers, fishing lures, plastic wrap from cigarette packs and things like that. It’s disgusting and everywhere. I am used to going to the beach and seeing very little garbage. It looks clean and it’s beautiful when you visit. Oregons beaches were very well taken care of and rarely did I see garbage. How can I bring this to attention and who do I need to start with at trying to make people realize what they are doing by littering. I’d like to really get some support and hopefully someone in charge of changing things like this in the State to start making changes!
I live by surfside beach and it’s about 4 miles of beach. I just want people to be aware of the garbage problem. There are gabage cans all along the grass before you actually get to the sand close enough for ppl to use but they don’t. they just throw the garbage whereever they are. I want to clean it up and make it beautiful and peaceful. I would like to know information on who to cantact, webite links maybe to the effects of garbage and beach wildlife and just the negative effects for the environment and wildlife, and anything to help make my case stronger and more effective in getting the desired results. Please help and the more info you can give me the better. I am not an environmentalist but I do think we need to take care of what God has given us. Any help is appriciated. Thank You!