I'm not an environmentalist. Really, I'm not. I crank up the heating when I get cold, take fifteen-minute showers, eat from non-recyclable containers, and don't let it mellow. But I do appreciate a good wakeup call now and again, just to remind myself how precious our little blue planet really is.
To live in an environmentally-friendly world would not mean going full-out organic vegan mode, or collecting rainwater for our bi-weekly showers. Cars would not go extinct and contact with other nations would not be lost; likewise, people would not become forest-dwellers, relying on nothing but the energy of the Sun God.
There are thousands of developing ideas from all over the world and from all sorts of different people feeling remorseful of the way the Earth is treated. Some are in effect already, such as harvest of solar power, sales of partially or fully electric cars, bans on plastic bags, and use of energy-saving light bulbs. The terrifying environmentalist advertisements bombarding the public today contain figures that are true, but conclusions that could not be any more false. It's not all doom and gloom, people! Humans need power and resources, and that is the price we pay for having the most evolved brain of all species on the planet. Now it is up to us to use those brains and differentiate between what is right and what is wrong, and take the appropriate measures to be active, conscious citizens of the world. For now, while we wait for truly brilliant environmentally-friendly ideas to emerge, the least we can do is switch off the lights when not needed. It really is the easiest thing we will do all day.
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