Happy Earthday!
On Tuesday, April 22, 2008 we earthlings celebrated Earth Day. No it’s not Earth’s birthday, it is the one day that globally we earthlings make a concerted effort to save the planet. FYI check out the astounding photos of this magnificent planet we call home that the Wired Blog Network posted for this year’s Earth Day celebration. I must confess that I have not been a conscious, contributor toward saving the planet throughout my life. I am 53 years old and have been wasteful and negligent about doing my part towards saving this planet. It wasn’t until my 12 year old daughter urged us to look at what is happening to the earth that it made an impact. I am guilty of participating in mocking Al Gore when he was running for president the first time. Yes many people were mocking Al Gore and calling him “Ozone Man” and I went right along with them. When Al Gore was attributed to having stated that he “invented the internet” while I never heard him say that nor did I read anything from Mr. Gore in which he said that, I went along with the pundits. It was really good laughing material.
Who’s laughing now? The issue of Global warming has been a passion of Mr. Gore’s since he attended Harvard University.
According to The Concord Monitor, “Gore was one of the first politicians to grasp the seriousness of climate change and to call for a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases. He held the first congressional hearings on the subject in the late 1970s.”
Source Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It’s to bad Mr. Gore did not use the environment as his platform when he ran for President in 2000, who knows maybe he would have WON. Lucky for us he did not fold up his tent and give up. Yes, I am now a Al Gore fan, and I do feel that the Presidency was stolen from him by the Bush’s and the Republican Party. But after Mr. Gore licked his wounds, so to speak, he came out fighting and I think he win!
He won a Nobel Peace Prize for his …”efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change” ibid. and won an “Oscar” an Academy Award for his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”
There has been no one in my lifetime to draw as much attention to environmental issues and the issue of saving the planet as Al Gore. So this year, between my 12 year old daughters pleas and the message of Global Warming by Mr. Vice President Al Gore, that has finally struck a cord in me, I have pledged to do everything in my limited power to help save the planet. For me, that means recycling, using environmentally friendly light bulbs at home, driving a low emission vehicle, and not wasting water!
So for the first time in my life, I was 14 years old when the very first Earth Day was celebrated, I am consciously making a determination to do all that I can to help SAVE THE PLANET! It was my two daughters that drove the point home that Polar Bears may become extinct by the end of this decade. Man that is only two years away. My grandchildren may grow up in a world where we talk about Polar Bears the way we talk about Dinosaurs. Ice bergs and caps are melting rapidly. This means that the Polar Bears will die, their entire eco-system is changing. They will not have food to eat or a place to live. By 2010!. But that is not the only effects of this melt down. We are feeling the effects already. There is flooding going on in some parts of the earth, while there are droughts in others. Some even attribute the August 29, 2005 Hurricane “Katrina” and the great “Sunami” of December 26, 2004 to global warming.
What will you do to Help Save The Planet?
Carbon neutral world, a distant dream?
