Saving the World : Step One … ( 04 / 22 / 2013 )
Saving the World : Step One … ( 04 / 22 / 2013 )
Happy Earth Day , my Friends ! … In honor of our beautiful planet — a Home we are currently destroying and dirtying at an alarming rate , I suggest that today we all DO SOMETHING to help Her . And what I am suggesting is a much easier solution than many of those offered by the many thousands of Caring Earthactivists these days …
* I am not asking you to walk to work ( or to bike , or to commute , or to use public transportation ) in order to help weaken the stranglehold that big oil has on our world …
* I am not asking you to take shorter showers , to replace your lawns with low-maintenance groundcovers or to stop running the tap while you brush your teeth ( though most think-tank intellectuals do believe that the next world war will indeed be fought over clean water ) …
* I am not asking you to create less garbage or to recycle the garbage that you do create ( compost , people — compost ! It ’ s the best way to feed those home-grown vegetables ) …
Nope … All I am asking you to do is make one small shift in your diet : All I & the Earth are asking you to do is to stop eating meat & dairy products for one day … Because in that one day ( TODAY ), you & you alone will do your part in saving planet Earth … Because In just that one day ( TODAY ), you will save well over 5000 + gallons of fresh water , you will save the lives of literally hundreds of trees , and you will lessen the amount of air pollution produced by more than ten automobiles . All this for the Earth in just one day of veganism … just one day , FOR every day you choose to do so !
Now I know that that there are many other very important reasons to replace the meat & milk in your diet with healthier alternatives , and yet saving our planet is a pretty good place to start …
… After all , it ’ s the only place we have .
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