When I first started this post yesterday, I found myself climbing up onto the same Soapbox I’ve occupied for too many Earth Days now. Since my years spent Homesteading in the turbulent days of the late 1970s and through the mid 1980s, I’ve been repeating the same message. As have a great number of others. However, while these many voices over the decades have increased awareness and garnered recruits to the cause of this planet, it’s still not enough.
Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22nd, 1970. In the intervening fifty-two years considerable strides have been made towards conservation and legislation, etc. Sadly, the opposite has also been true. There has been a continuing degradation of both environment and the protections put in place to preserve it. Unless a much greater effort is put forward in the very near future it will most certainly be a case of too little, too late. The plight of this planet is very well documented at this point. Still, there continues to be an all too pervasive attitude of worry about it later, or a feeling that we as individuals can do very little.
Not true. In fact, despite some of the amazing work being done by numerous conservation and ecological organizations, the true solution to this crisis must lie at the threshold of each Individual being. It is only through enough of us taking initiative at a very personal and committed level that significant change can or will occur.
For too long, scientists, technologists and governments have been very aware of the troubles faced by our environmental damage— by pollution, deforestation, overpopulation and the general abuse and misuse of natural resources. A great many people have also Known for a good long time now, what sort of measures are required to turn back this mad rush toward extinction. However, comparatively little has been or is being done. While I firmly believe in supporting the Conservation efforts of the numerous great organizations out there, I just as strongly advocate that preserving this planet begins at with each of us, where we live.
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Great article!
Thank you! <3