Our Environment Is What We Make Of It

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With the tensions in the Mideast perpetually heating up, our heightening involvement is a two-front war, the declining global economies and resultant spike in oil prices, and food shortages, the deleterious effects of global warming, and with the prospects of more to come, we are all facing both personal and communal crises in our lifetime.

In this article, I want to focus on some environmental issues. We need to be cognizant of the present state of environmental duress we are subjecting to our planet. “Mother Earth” is forgiving to a point. But we are rapidly reaching that point of no return through our negligence, greed, apathy and carelessness. Too much “development” (for lack of a lesser flattering term) has caused millions of acres of oxygen giving trees and farmland to be forever lost. Our rain forests and clean waterways are disappearing, to be replaced by an overcrowding, unsustainable population, foul air and water, and a very real potential legacy of airborne and other fatal illnesses in the not-so-distant future.

Dickens, in A Christmas Carol, wrote about the ghost of the future. An ominous character whose dire situation might not come to fruition if preventative steps were taken to avoid the calamity. In my opinion, this is true of our environment. We have been forewarned about the effects of global warming, despite denials by more ignorant than informed politicians, amongst others.

We still have time (albeit not much) to clean up our act and environment before we predestine ourselves to much lesser qualities of life. Both science and reason clearly point toward the destruction of life as we know it today if we do not act in concert in taking a proactive stance in improving our environment.

In an earlier article, I wrote about the benefits and rewards of volunteering. Mother Earth can really sue our help both as individuals keeping and maintaining a “green” lifestyle, as well as communal efforts at cleaning our neighborhoods, roads and waterways and air. We need to reverse the cycle of neglectful waste and purge ourselves of overindulgence and indifference toward our surroundings - be it personal or common space.

We should all be afforded the opportunity to experience natures’ landmarks and natural beauty. To achieve this we need to work together. As the famous quote from the 1960’s states, “If you are not part of the solution - you’re part of the problem.”

              - The Clutterman

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