Upcoming Earth Day

Earth Day is Sunday.  While I have a feeling the planet is already doomed because of what we've done to it, I am going to do my part to try and make it a better place.  I've started buying organic.  I use eco-friendly soaps for dishes, laundry, even myself.  I try to walk instead of drive (unless the place is over two miles away one way, then I drive.  Sorry, I'm lazy).  I unplug/turn off power strips whenever I can.  I don't crank the A/C down to 'frigid' as soon as April 15th hit.

But when the weather goes up and down so much that flowers are dying by the bundle and droughts are lasting longer, I'm not sure it's worth it.  Sure I'm trying, but I'm one person.  What can one person do?  Yes there are examples in history of what one person can do.  William Wallace (yes, he is considered a hero in Scotland), Joan of Arc, Erezebet Bathory (to those who enjoy the macabre, she is also called the Blood Countess).  But, when it comes down to it, I'm a hummingbird trying to put an inferno out with my wing-beats.

There are times, especially at night when I've got nothing to do but think, that I wonder why I bother.  Why I try to make the planet better.  Then I look at the kids playing outside, and the new spring babies of the various animals around here, and I realize that those little lives are worth it.  The innocent who give us those big smiles and handfuls of dandilions with stems an inch long, they're worth trying to save this wretched piece of rock for.  To give them something in better condition than we got it.