To celebrate Earth Day, I took a an empty juice box and water bottle, placed them in a disposable diaper with some batteries, and threw this non-recyclable "stew" in the water retention pond across the street.
Actually, I didn't do that. However, that is how I have reponded to people that asked what I did for Earth Day. I live in a community with many radical and active environmentalists. They would like to shoot people that do not recycle everything - really. As a result, the community is perceived as consisting of people that are pro-environment and people that are anti-environment.
Like many people, I probably fit somewhere between the two extremes. I do think it is important to remember that the planet is not ours. We are living on it rent-free. We can chose to be terrible tenants and abuse our enviromnent with no concern for the future or we can choose to be good stewards and recognize our duty to use our natural resources as efficiently as possible.
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