Earth Day, much like Earth Hour, is meaningless if we don’t do anything about it. Whether you believe in global warming or not, the idea of Earth Day is important. Just take a walk (or a drive) around town and look for all the random trash that is splattered along the road, or in the park. Drive along a major thoroughfare or a highway and you begin to notice all the McDonalds bags, Dunkin Donuts cups, Shaw’s bags, and cardboard boxes along the road. If we do not take Earth Day seriously, not just on April 22 but every day, the trash will not just be in the dumps and splattered along our roadways, but will continue to build up in the places we visit ever day that do not have trash.
For now, it is easy to turn a blind eye to the Earth. The ice caps are melting thousands of miles away. Last year’s cold summer caused even the biggest combatant of global warming to second-guess himself. Water pollution is covered up, or towns make unsubstantial excuses to as why waste treatment plants or paper companies (etc.) had to dump their excess into the local river.
Trash, for now, is nearly contained in dumps and for the most part those dumps are contained away from the rich and left in poorer areas (i.e. Chicago’s South Side). But, the land will run out eventually. The trash will begin to show. How long will it be until someone notices, until someone cares?
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