The P.C. term is "Environmentally...

I do not claim to be well studied in environmental issues. I am a simple housewife sitting in my bedroom on my laptop, in Maryland, in the United States, on the planet known as Earth which is just a tiny speck in a universe so grand that I can not begin to comprehend it.

Despite, my lack of scientific or highly intellectual knowledge of what is going on; I am still able to realize that we have a problem. I hear that we are going to run out of our natural resources and that our landfills are almost out of space. I hear that we are destroying our planet at least two or three times a week. And I have heard these things since about the mid 1980’s when I was old enough I think to actually hear them for I am quite sure this discussion has been going on longer.

I remember when I was a teenager and everyone was up in arms about CFC’s (I even have to Google the entire word) or Chlorofluorocarbons destroying the ozone layer. Hairspray and aerosol cans in general were frowned upon. We were all warned that with the ozone layer being destroyed, there would be a higher increase in the cases of skin cancer.

I have also lived through hearing about the horrific oil spills, the one in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and the Exxon Valdez one in 1989, and the aftermath of clean up and trying to save the eco-systems. I remember hearing about saving the seals in the late 1980’s and the plight of dolphins in the 90’s getting caught in tuna nets and we were promised that our tuna would be dolphin free.

These are just a few of the things that I am aware of, I know of a few more. I remember that there are solutions and what humans could be doing. I know of several friends of mine that can be classified as “tree-huggers”, which by the way some embrace as a term they like and a few others that find it insulting. However, I am in awe by them and their ceaseless empathy for saving our planet in little ways that they can.

So what do I do about it? I’ll be honest with you, I am not doing enough and I’ll bet some of you reading this are not either. I am all for hearing about electric cars or hybrids, (I am not even sure whether they are the same thing or not, I just know they are better) and recycling, solar energy and such. I don’t do anything about it but I want to. I think that I can not make a difference sometimes and other times I think I’m just making excuses. There is no reason that I can not get in my pollution making car and head over to a local event to plant a few more trees. I can sit in my house shaking my head that there is so much overbuilding in the United States that our wildlife is without homes. I can cry over the rainforests being cut down doing the same thing.

I am thirty-three years old and have never really done more than cry about what is happening to the planet and I have finally decided that I need to do something, even a little something, to help save the planet and I think that it is very true that one person can not save the planet but if one person tells another who tells another and each of them begin to do something that we can pull this destruction back some.

Do I believe that humans will destroy the earth sometime soon? Yes, but I hope that we delay it by using one of our biggest natural resources. That resource is our brains.

Think a little about what you can do. Do a little research and find out where the environmental events are in your city. Make a vow to take yourself and your children to at least one of these events a month to help out in whatever way you can. This is what I am looking into.

I am just one person and I want to make a difference. No matter how tiny a difference it is.