Well, Earth Day is here again. A lot has changed in those years. Environmental problems have been solved and new ones have arisen. So far we have won, but the problems keep getting bigger. At first they were local, now they are global.
And now, in addition to climate change, the biggest problem we have faced yet, we also have the problem of a stubborn refusal to recognize the problem and work on solving it among some of our leaders.
I have heard many reasons why this is so, but the most convincing to me is that they realize this problem will take a large concerted effort to fix and they adamantly don't believe in that type of solution. It will cost money, true and they don't like that, but they have accepted that in the past. And the opposition started before they became the party of no.
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, but what term is defined by seeing a mortal danger in front of you and thinking you can just shut your eyes and eliminate it?
I hope we can have 43 more Earth Days and the luxury of time and ability to celebrate them.
Amen.
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