Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find...
~ as quoted in TIME
a wise man one said...
oh mercy, mercy me...
things ain't what they use to be...
marvin gaye sang that beautiful song and in 1971...even then he knew the destructive path in which we treat one of our most precious resources: the environment.
do you believe in foresight?
it is now the year twenty 07 and we are finally waking up to the realities of global warming and the damages we are causing to the only mother that we all come from...
EARTH...
lets face it...we are consumers...we consume everything in sight: water. oil. electricity. energy. fossil fuels. land. plants. paper. light bulbs. gas. plastic. aluminum. animals. eco systems. we are a nation built on the foundation of consumption. we consume, therefore we are. we do not hesitate. in fact we enjoy and flaunt our consumption. we consume based on necessity. we consume to live and we consume to die. and in the middle of all this we are to expect that the natural world comply with our consumption junction.
i am not going to preach here. i alone am one of the worst offenders of environmental gluttony. i drive a horrible commute to and from work. i consume more gasoline and oil than your average. i drive everywhere all the while i rack up the 15,000 plus carbon dioxide poundage just off driving alone.
i work for corporate america and thus i consume more paper then what is needed. reports upon reports means trees upon trees.
i am the consumer energizer bunny. i keep wastin' and wastin'. i leave my laptop on so that i can constantly check my myspace and my away message is important to me. i leave lights on when i shouldn't and since its so damn hot...(i wonder why: global warming~cough*) the AC has become my friend.
i have a massive carbon print. (for those that don't know when we consume we give off our own unique carbon print, kinda like a fingerprint.)
so what am i to do? yes being green is super trendy and thanks to al gore we are all realizing our inconvenient truth. a call to action is a realistic action and it does start with the (wo)man in the mirror. the convenient truth is that there is a realistic opportunity to create a revolution against consumption. we can use the means of production against itself by simply consuming less or consuming smart. to ask ourselves to stop consuming is unrealistic but asking ourselves to purchase energy efficient light bulbs or to resist the temptation to leave my computer on DOES HELP! we cannot drive less but we can CARPOOL more. we can use digital documents as opposed to pulling double digit paper reports. we can accept the truth instead of being complacent.
it's been roughly 36 years since marvin sang his song and unfortunately it is still relevant. the environment is intrinsically linked to our most important resource: the youth. we need to make sure we leave something better for them...or else there goin to have to find a new planet...
signing off...same PAT time same PAT channel
