Slow or Stupid?

Apparently we Americans just don't give a rat's butt about our world. We don't care about the wildlife, the oceans, the air, we don't even care about the human race...apparently. Whenever I read about what other countries are doing to slow Global Warming I wonder where we fall in that list. Simple answer? We don't. And it seems our government, for the most part, doesn't give a rat's butt either...polluting our world makes "us" far too much money, after all.

Take something as simple as recycling. Why can't we all do our part in our own homes and with our own trash? How hard would that be? And it would be a huge contribution to helping our world. If that was all we, as Americans, did for the earth, we just might be on a list of some sort showing our concern for a place we all share.

Then, I know that buying $100 in groceries at Super (fill in your favorite super center) yields at least 10 plastic bags is no good for our world. Well, I know plastic bags are bad news and I'm sure most Americans recognize it. But we roll out of the store with our grocery carts flooded with plastic bags like it's no big deal. Well it is a big deal and if we as Americans don't stop sitting back watching our government tell us how things are going to be we'll all be in a world of hurt, literally.

I remember working at a family-owned grocery store in high school and when people would come in with canvas bags I'd want to choke them...the bags didn't make my job as a sacker any easier! Plastic was a cinch to fill up and transfer to their grocery cart. So although it'll take me longer to sack my own groceries wherever I shop, it'll be worth ditching the convenient plastic bags once and for all. It'll also free up a lot of space under our kitchen counter...those things multiply like nothing I've ever seen!

We all need to find one way that we can contribute to cleaning up our planet...ONE way, it really isn't much harder than that. And no matter what one thing you do, it'll make this place better and hey, you can say you're doing YOUR part.

As Jay's music class' song goes, "Keep our planet clean, keep our planet clean!"