My Earth Day was more significant this year, not because it was the 40th Anniversary, or because it was a beautiful day of weather, where it rained in the morning and cleared partially-still cool and damp for the rest of the day. Nor was it because of the abundant smells and beautiful colors of spring.
Instead, it was more significant because my sense of my connection with our earth is stronger than it ever has been. My understanding of the impact our lifestyles are having on our environment is much clearer. And yet I spent Earth Day ripping up a tile floor for a remodel of a home of people I haven’t met, and filling a dumpster with debris, knowing that this debris will last far beyond my time...while also grateful for the work.
I cannot help but feel a responsibility for how the future is shaping up for our children. We are overloading our earth’s capacity in so many ways. Even as times are tough, I ask that we adapt to become forward thinkers focused on our air quality and the protection of all our finite natural resources; to become more aware of our missed opportunities and be proactive in bringing about significant and necessary change and redirect the trajectory we are now on.
We need there to be a price on carbon at the source and to ask our leaders to change policies to encourage a green economy. It is critical that we address the scale of our air quality issues and come forward as stewards of our land. Our generation has this responsibility. This can only come from the people, and I believe that the most effective way for this to happen in the necessary timeframe is to ask people to defend the rights of our planet by performing simultaneous gatherings that show that action in this form is not radical, but necessary. We have no time to waste. It is necessary that we show that there is one voice that is asking for significant policy change today, because tomorrow depends on it. Why can’t it be possible?
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