Earth Day--Whatever is it for????
Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
by Sandra E. Graham
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You have your Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, President’s Day. You even have your Groundhog’s Day (whatever a ground hog is). And now we’re getting ready for Earth Day. We all love our Mothers and Fathers and, well maybe we don’t all love our Presidents, and who in the south doesn’t love Sadie Hawkins? But, pleeeease! An Earth Day!? Should we even have an Earth Day? What ever is it good for?
Finally someone has thought to give credit where credit is due.
If having an Earth Day will help us to remember what we have and (given its enormous size) how fragile that ownership is, then God be praised; let us celebrate that day. Plant a tree, pick up trash strewn by the roadside and in the parks, drive around that industrious turtle crossing the roadway, and brake for all the little squirrels with their cute furry tails.
Every person using the earth as though they owned it, should repay in kind—make it a family affair—pick a project, even if its just planting a tiny seed, and do it on this one day. If you never pick up another scrap of paper for a whole year, make it a special point on this one day.
Giving back just some of what we have taken away will help ensure that this great planet will be here to support our grandchildren many times over. There is so much that each person could do that wouldn’t cost a dime. If for this one day no one threw a cigarette butt or McDonald’s leftovers from their car windows, just think of the scenery that would be preserved for the next passers-by. Sometimes in the ‘not doing’ we can do as much or more than in the doing.
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Sandra E. Graham, author Amos Jakey , published by American Book Publishing.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)You know Sandra, I used to believe in space travel, and going to distant planets as a child. But you know any place we travel in outer-space we need the elements of our mother Earth, such as oxygen, temperature, nutrients (food and water) we make space suits to sustain our Earth like conditions. Are we foolish or what? trying to leave our Mother Earth behind. I think we should try nurse her back to health, don’t you?
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