April 20, 2007
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Earth Day
You know, I once heard a very wise woman say that we’re all environmentalists. This notion that environmentalists are just the “tree huggers”, the “hippies”, it’s crap. Everyone loves trees, and blue skies, and birds, and little squirrels eating little acorns with their little hands. We all want to wake up tomorrow and the next day and the next week and the next year and not have the ocean over take our town because the ice caps melted. We don’t want humans to be responisble for using up and destroying this once-life supporting planet. I mean, this could be the only hunk of rock in the universe capable of sustaining our form of life, and we are KNOWINGLY and WILLINGLY destroying it.
For all the wars on drugs, terror, racism, etc, why are we ignoring the fact that if we don’t do something NOW about our dependency on fossil fuels it is all moot. It won’t matter if people use crack, it won’t matter if there is a suicide bomber in NYC, it won’t matter if there are racist compounds in Tennessee because human beings, along with most other life forms, and the planet earth as we know it WILL CEASE TO EXIST.
I am not saying that this is the only relevent issue. I am saying that this is the most precient issue. This is the most truely life-and-death issue because it affects the ENTIRE planet. What right does anyone have to say that they are entitled to a lifestyle that will destroy the potential for future generations?
