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Happy Earth Day

chessylady — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 02:29:42 GMT

Tomorrow, April 22, is the 51st annual Earth Day. The theme this year is "Restore Our Earth." I am worried about the earth we all share. Here in the west we are facing another drought which often leads to wild fires. Please take a moment tomorrow to think about what you and your community could do to restore our earth.

Re: Happy Earth Day

ThinkingOutLoud — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 02:44:58 GMT

I'd love to share the solution but unfortunately, it's probably against forum rules.

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Mersha — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 02:48:16 GMT

I remember the first Earth Day very well.

Yes, we are in trouble. Things are changing rapidly and not in a good way.

Hopefully, this will be taken seriously and things can be done to preserve the earth for future generations.

Re: Happy Earth Day

skatting44 — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 02:53:47 GMT

Let's all start by picking up the trash along roads and parks. So many people just leave trash everywhere . Many Veterans Hospitals have outdoor gardens for Vets as part of horticulture therapy where they could really appreciate volunteers helping to weed and rototill the beds for this years spring planting .

Go volunteer

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spiderw — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 03:17:54 GMT

I have been an environmentalist since the fifties and I salute Earth Day. There is so much to say but I will address one issue that I have been angry and disgusted with for quite awhile. The highways and ramps are full of litter. I don't mean a couple of pieces of paper, I mean garbage all over the place, I have never seen so much litter. I have called many people concerning this health hazard and I am frustrated. There are excuses such as the pandemic but the pandemic didn't create little, people are responsible. They use the highways to empty their garbage, I wonder how their homes look inside.

Finally a contact informed me she was going to talk to some people in charge and gave me hope that maybe there would be a push to clean up. Even mayors have complained. In our newspapers, articles have appeared stating some groups will be out there cleaning up . There is a lot to do but it's a start and I will continue to push in any way I can.

I don't have the authority to tackle the very big and important issues but I do whatever I can within my capacity as a voter and a citizen to help wherever I can.

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cotton4me — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 05:43:20 GMT

Interesting that litter has been mentioned. That’s also one of my pet peeves. I take regular walks in nature parks and the amount of trash I find is unbelievable. I began carrying trash bags and gloves so I can pick it up when I see it. It’s also amazing how much stuff washes up from the creek when it rains. One time I picked up over 200 plastic water bottles along with other sundry stuff. I can only imagine how much makes its way to the rivers and oceans.

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Caligurll — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:14:29 GMT

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suzyQ3 — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 23:31:35 GMT

@spiderw wrote:
I have been an environmentalist since the fifties and I salute Earth Day. There is so much to say but I will address one issue that I have been angry and disgusted with for quite awhile. The highways and ramps are full of litter. I don't mean a couple of pieces of paper, I mean garbage all over the place, I have never seen so much litter. I have called many people concerning this health hazard and I am frustrated. There are excuses such as the pandemic but the pandemic didn't create little, people are responsible. They use the highways to empty their garbage, I wonder how their homes look inside.

Finally a contact informed me she was going to talk to some people in charge and gave me hope that maybe there would be a push to clean up. Even mayors have complained. In our newspapers, articles have appeared stating some groups will be out there cleaning up . There is a lot to do but it's a start and I will continue to push in any way I can.

I don't have the authority to tackle the very big and important issues but I do whatever I can within my capacity as a voter and a citizen to help wherever I can.

@spiderw. Yes we do. We can vote for those who best represent our thoughts and keep the pressure on.

I hate trash as well, but it is really just a symptom of a far worse crisis.

Re: Happy Earth Day

skatting44 — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:03:44 GMT

For me, lets talk abt picking up trash , what does anything else mean when all the places we go are trashed up. People don't clean up anything or reccycle, just throw away . Some places have big landfills , our oceans are garbage pits, space gets discarded space craft . I've known people all into " saving the environment " but do nothing to tackle the mounting trash issues and the companies that profit on putting cities trash on garbage barges in the ocean.

Re: Happy Earth Day

Drythe — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:39:11 GMT

@Caligurll wrote:

@Caligurll

Our poor planet. Many taking a lot, and not giving much back.

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Porcelain — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:48:02 GMT

@cotton4me wrote:
Interesting that litter has been mentioned. That’s also one of my pet peeves. I take regular walks in nature parks and the amount of trash I find is unbelievable. I began carrying trash bags and gloves so I can pick it up when I see it. It’s also amazing how much stuff washes up from the creek when it rains. One time I picked up over 200 plastic water bottles along with other sundry stuff. I can only imagine how much makes its way to the rivers and oceans.

I do that too! One day I was walking on our greenway and I wanted to pick up some trash but it was just too groady. So now I take my latex gloves with me and I'm not afraid to pick up most items and throw them out.

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Porcelain — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:51:31 GMT

Earth Day is the Original Mother's Day. Without a clean and healthy planet to live on and seas to swim in, we have noplace else to go. Just like we only get one life, we only get one Earth. What we do and don't do matters.

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Cakers3 — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 16:35:13 GMT

@skatting44 wrote:
For me, lets talk abt picking up trash , what does anything else mean when all the places we go are trashed up. People don't clean up anything or reccycle, just throw away . Some places have big landfills , our oceans are garbage pits, space gets discarded space craft . I've known people all into " saving the environment " but do nothing to tackle the mounting trash issues and the companies that profit on putting cities trash on garbage barges in the ocean.

@skatting44 ^^^THIS!!!

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Porcelain — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 20:45:46 GMT

@skatting44 wrote:
For me, lets talk abt picking up trash , what does anything else mean when all the places we go are trashed up. People don't clean up anything or reccycle, just throw away . Some places have big landfills , our oceans are garbage pits, space gets discarded space craft . I've known people all into " saving the environment " but do nothing to tackle the mounting trash issues and the companies that profit on putting cities trash on garbage barges in the ocean.

Well to be fair, I've also known people who don't care at all about the environment who also refuse to clean up anything and who don't recycle. Their excuse is that they don't care about it.

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chickenbutt — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 19:54:12 GMT

Littering has always bothered me. Years ago I was in my car with a friend and as we drove down some street he threw trash out of the window! I stopped and was like WTH??? We picked it up and I hope he 'got' that littering is bad but, initially, he was hacked off at me for calling him on it.

This friend was a fair amount younger than I and I bring that up because it seems they don't teach kids anymore to not litter, like they did when I was a kid.

There is an elementary school near me. At any given time you can find school papers, food/drink containers, etc, flying around in the wind. They have trash cans all around the school but I guess they just don't care.

My lot is an inverted corner lot. I live on a small 'U' shaped street and am in one of those elbows of the 'U' so it seems like the trash blows into my yard as it's final stopping place. Oddly, it even blows into my side and back yards, over the 6' fence. it is a wind-prone area.

It gets old and I wish they didn't stop telling kids not to litter. I've actually seen kids walking down the middle of my street dropping litter wherever they happen to be - in the middle of the street, or in other peoples' yards, etc. It's not even in the thought process to do something differently.