EARTH DAY 25: ARE WE READY?
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YES!
By Kim Bossé
The first Earth Day in May, 1970, has long been
extolled as the advent of the environmental
movement. Now, as we approach Earth Day's 25th
anniversary, it appears that we are facing an
indifferent and cavalier attitude towards
conservation. Ecology & Recycling are not
currently the trendy and hip espresso house
discourse. In the last few months articles by
environmental luminaries such as Theodore
Roszak, Martin W. Lewis and Jeremy Rifkin have
voiced opinions regarding the changing
mind-set within the populace. Interwoven
within their individual theories have been
suppositions that the environmental movement
itself is becoming endangered due to its own lack
of clarity, continuity, and cooperativeness
between groups to create solutions that will
benefit everyone. The urgent nature of many
conservation problems helps to create a
perceived personna of non-scientific emotional
blackmail. This, coupled with a changing
political climate, economic uncertainty, and the
general lack of education regarding
conservation issues gives an aura of frivality to
lifestyle changes such as source reduction,
over-consumption, and natural resources/
energy demands.
Whether we agree politically or
philosophically, I believe that the individuals
who live here care about our community and its
inhabitants. Therefore, issues regarding the
land we occupy, resources we use, and the
non-human habitants are our common concern.
I will go a step further and say it is for our
common good to be educated, involved, and active
in the choices made about the place we choose to
call home. These are not issues that come in and
out of vogue, rather, they should be lifelong
commitments.
So, my friends, I have some thoughts for you to
consider as we approach Earth Day's auspicious
milestone.
Have you created opportunities within your
lifestyle that allow you to be inclusive, tolerant,
and respectful of the environment in which you
live?
Do you have the courage to stand up for your
convictions, even if they aren't the flavor of
the month"?
If not, then possibly you, like many others,
either haven't had the time to consider these
issues or do not feel a pressing need to be
committed to the preservation of our community.
It would be nice if in this new year we all
pledged to learn, experiment and grow in ways
that help protect, improve and sustain our world.
Perhaps we just need to pause in our sometimes
overanxious quest for life to consider the old
maxim that the simplest pleasures in life are
often the best. They can also be gentle solutions
to some of our environmental and societal
concerns.
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There is a great tendency to fix past mistakes.
However, unless more effort is devoted to kxiking
forward toward prevention rather than backward toward
correction, we will continually be trying to catch up.
“America has proved that it is practi
cable to elevate the mass of mankind. ..to
raise them to self-respect, to make them
competent to act a pan in the great right
and great duty of self-government; and she
has proved that this can be done by educa
tion and the diffusion of knowledge....”
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B Y T IM O T H Y G O W E R
Take this summer"s baseball
strike. Millionaire athletes, most of
whom would be parkrng cars were it not
for their prowess on the diamond, com
plained about being underpaid. Baz 1
honaire team owners, most of whom buy
baseball clubs as diversions from their
full-time jobs as megalomaniaca corpo
rate tyrants, complained about losing
money. Baseball fans missed out onthe
end of the regular season but were treat
ed to the World Series of Bitching.
“I am the poor white, fooled and
pushed apart,
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1 am the Negro, bearing slavery s scar,
I am the Red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope
I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid
plan
Of dog eat dog, or might crush the weak.
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America was never America to me
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!”
_ Langston Hughes
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