It is also my cat's birthday. Happy Birthday Albee!
So in honor of earth day, I will muse about global warming
(((insert zooming in and out effect on capitalized letters spelling global warming)))
I am not really a green person. I mean I think about it when I have to and I drive a fuel efficient car. I drive that car because it is good on gas mileage so it was really an economic thing more so than it was an effort to reduce my personal carbon footprint.
The real reason I decided to write about this is because I was perusing Time.com as I do everyday at least twice, and it had an article about the Top Fifteen Green Websites.
I would like to consider myself a realist. Do I think that the polar ice caps are going to melt, turning the world into a sauna in 10 years? No. Do I think that if all 6.2 billion people in the world try to reduce a fraction of their emissions over the next 20 years it will have an impact on whether or not the earth goes into cosmic reboot someday? Sure.
It is impossible to think that the amount of plastic that we have used in the past 30 years is honky dory for the earth. Plastic takes thousands of years to biodegrade. Thousands! Not to mention we are finding small minute plastic particles in the gill structures of our fish. Seriously, look it up. Those little plastic micro-scrubbers in your exfoliating scrub are removing dead skin cells and then traveling through the sewage into the eco system at some point (unless you are using St. Ives Apricot Scrub, which is the only scrub I know for a fact that uses pumas stone). It would be silly to think that humans while changing the face of the earth by deforestation and concretization doesn't affect the planet and its atmosphere in some negative way.
So this got me thinking...
I already got the hot fuel efficient car, what else can I do? I've recently been looking at composting but I don't have a garden and I live in a third floor apartment so it isn't very feasible. I don't really recycle. But my apartment complex doesn't recycle plastic which is most of what my recyclables are. I will look into where the closest recycle place is located and if it is within 15 miles of my place of business or home I will go to it. I wish I could plant some trees or something. I've already decided that this summer unless i have to go more than twenty miles and do it very quickly, that I am going to ride my bike everywhere. Stupid gas prices. I would hate to be driving anything bigger than my car this summer. I suppose that is something but its so far away, six weeks away. I live in Texas so keeping the a/c off isn't an option. Those of you in PA that roll your eyes, really. We have "PA August" from late May until October. But I do pledge to keep my a/c at 80 degrees. Maybe 82 if I can fall asleep like that.
On an unrelated note, I woke up yesterday at 5:00 AM and wrote yesterdays entry. Today I did the same. I like this trend and hope it continues.
Peace
B
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