Last Wish #04 … Love our Earth (03/15/14)
Let’s face it — our Earth is in pretty sad shape. Its forests are dwindling, its polar ice is melting, its wildlife is disappearing, its air is being polluted and its waters are being poisoned … and, due solely to our collective greed — solely due to our collective lusts for ‘wealth” & comfort & ease, things are actually getting worse.
And yet all is not lost, my Friends. It is not too late to to turn our still-beautiful Celestial Spaceship around; not too late for us to cease being the cancerous barbarians we currently resemble and to commence behaving as caring stewards of our potential Paradise instead.
And even though time is indeed running out on saving our only Home, we don’t have to do so overnight. Every one of you who chooses to help will make a small-yet-significant difference in saving our world from desolation and saving our species from extinction.
So, would you like to join the team — the only team that has any chance at attaining any semblance of true Victory? If so, simply start by taking three days a week to do at least one of the following:
*Clean up your neighborhood (or just take a walk with trash bag and pick up all the litter you see along the way) …
*Plant flowers (or even a tree) …
*Bike to work; bike to shop; bike anywhere …
*Reduce (what you own — give away your superfluous possessions to the poor), then Reuse (what you will need again in the future) or Recycle (what you would otherwise merely throw away) …
*Save our forests! Limit the amount of paper you use, use recycled paper when you do use it, and the recycle that paper when you are done …
*Save our lakes & rivers! Limit the amount of water you use …
*Save our world! Limit the amount of electricity you use (& consider investing in solar &/or or wind-generated power) …
In conclusion, while we cannot hope to save our planet right away — and while it is unreasonable to think that we can convince the “powers that be” to change their greedy, destructive ways, we CAN make personal choices every day that over time will indeed help our planet to survive in such a way that we will be able to survive as well.
The time has come for each & every one of us to stop passing the buck to our clearly corrupted & obviously uninterested “leaders”, and to become Leaders ourselves instead. This is my fourth “Final Wish” … Please join me in honoring it.
“What we are doing to the world is but a reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another … Change the former, and we will change the latter; change the latter, and the former will change as well.” ~ inspired by Mahatma Gandhi
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