Radical Change - Radical Actions

Once, in the 1.5 mile drive from the main highway there were 5 houses, now there are 20 subdivisions. Once as a boy I roamed these hills quail hunting now there are none to be seen, once I fished in the lake adjacent to the property, now it is virtually impossible to find a point of entry all the land is divided and has multimillion dollar homes, some with one resident per 2 or 3 thousand square feet.


I thought of the legacy I am passing to my son, one with barriers to nature and then I realized….. At some point in time, unless we change our habits and lifestyle there will be no nature to be enjoyed. We are already polluting, consuming, destroying at an unrecoverable rate. On a global level, the glaciers are melting, our natural resources are being consumed at an alarming rate and yet there is less concern than who will win the super bowl.

I find it hard to remove the environment from my mind these days and find that for the most part, few who I talk to seem to care. Maybe it is because we have concentrated too much attention on global problems that seem insurmountable and not enough on what is going on in our own backyard. How much fertilizer do you spread on that green lawn that requires mowing once every week or two? How often do we shop for food items that are grown non-organically and require petro to be delivered rather than locally grown or even home grown organic vegetables? Could it be that purchasing items in bulk rather than individual packages would be less costly in the long run? How many times do you run home to change clothes before those errands we need done before the day is done and for that matter, why is mass transit not a first choice rather than an afterthought.

Environmentalism starts at home, and then hope spreads. Radical change requires radical action, the kind that begins at home.