Earth Day 2012
As I tend to do each year, with the exception of the last one when I didn’t even do this much, I just want to remind everyone that today is Earth Day. Not that it means much in itself, since not much can get done in a single day, but every little bit can help and certain major campaigns started or centered on such events can actually have significant effects, assuming enough people take part and do it properly.
If nothing else, at least do the little things today, or pay even more attention to them if you already try to reduce your environmental footprint. Turn everything that uses electricity completely off when you’re not using it, don’t let the water run any more than it has to, don’t fully flush after urinating, walk or use a bicycle whenever possible, try to use public transportation instead of a personal car even for longer distances, sort your trash and recycle everything that can be recycled, don’t buy more than you need, reduce the amount of waste as much as possible, spread the word… You know the drill.
What’s most important is not to look at this as something that’s being forced upon you, but as something that will benefit us all, including yourself and all those you care about. If some of the little things you should do, not to mention the more significant ones, appear too difficult at the moment and you think that an attempt at this time may end up making you less likely to even try again in the future, then I guess you could wait a while longer. However, while you’re waiting you should send messages to the authorities, start or join campaigns or other such movements, and demand the infrastructure that will make it easier to hold on to such beneficial behavior patterns than to harmful ones.
