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Earth Day
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Earth Day So we passed the anniversary of Earth Day with precious little notice. Oh, sure, a few television stations mentioned it and the President was shown hiking in New York. The politicians took the usual potshots at each other and each tried to take credit for what they perceive to be the great improvement in our environment. Various media types commented on how the air quality in major cities is much improved and otherwise added their own opinions to the mix. All in all, the 32nd Earth Day was a quiet event. Even the necessity to focus on ecology is hotly contested between opposing camps, with both sides using similar statistics but drawing widely divergent conclusions. For every scientist warning about global warming, another will say it is hocus-pocus. Somehow it begins to make sense to me when I read about wide swings in weather patterns and realize that just this month in my area we had 91° one day and 7 inches of snow just a few days later. Some ecologically important things have happened recently. The Senate suffered a setback in their drive to approve drilling in the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Pundits viewed it as a finally giving the Democrats a cause to rally behind. Others viewed it as putting us at the mercy of Saddam Hussein. Nobody mentioned the delicate ecosystems of the area. A new and interesting proposal to reclaim an old mining site shows ingenuity, to say the least! Earth Day should be about a lot more than verbosity and conflicting claims. We should be thinking more about restoring the balance of nature and less about how we can rape the earth of its resources. We don't have a choice in the matter. It's not like we can just pick up and move when this planet wears out. Artistry Discuss your views in The Forums at Xisti.com. Not registered? Click on the Register Now icon in the left column to join the community. |
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