Earth Day is a way of encouraging people to take an active role in environmentally improving the world we live in, every day of the year.
But this is too much for some people. Already I see whiners complaining on the various social networking sites about how they are tired of hearing about being green. Really?
Ok, I may be a bit biased. Not only do I have an already active interest in green design, but I'm surrounded by it in my major. I'm working on green floor coverings for my materials class. I want to become certified for LEED. I enjoyed An Inconvenient Truth and The 11th Hour. I subscribe to multiple emailings about improving the Earth through design. I use CFLs. I recycle. I pay attention to the chemicals in the products I use. I am cognizant of the excessive packaging that products come in. I drive a small fuel-efficient car. The list could go on for awhile.
So, I don't need to be convinced of anything. I just seek to educate others of the fact that you are part of the problem if you choose to not be part of the solution. Global warming is not debatable. If you think it is, you haven't educated yourself enough on what's really going on. I encourage you to do so and take an active part in saving people generations down the line. The Earth isn't going anywhere, it's the people who won't survive.
Plant a tree. Here's why.
On the other hand, global warming and its consequences may be very healthy for the earth itself (if not its inhabitants)--a kind of planetary colon cleansing. ;)
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's healthy or unhealthy one way or another for the planet, but it could end up hundreds of years down the line that our planet will no longer be inhabitable. Greenhouse gasses are not able to escape the atmosphere, and eventually the planet will become too hot for plant and amimal life to thrive. That would be a shame. Taking a perfectly comfy planet and throwing it in the trash...:-( Not nice.
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