Earth Day reminds us what we accomplished with public marches (first one in NYC April 22, 1970). They ushered in a era of environmental advances that cleaned the air we breathe until Reagan began the reversal. Then in 2015 Pope Francis gave us a new Genesis https://reginamia.wordpress.com/2015/07/page/2/
I fully expect that my 6 year old grandson will soon know enough about our destruction of the planet to glare at me and say: “HOW DARE YOU!” To quote Greta Thunberg.
We planted trees along the main drive of our junior high school that first Earth Day 55 years ago. Present day, the school was closed/razed some 20 years back. Some of the trees planted were spared to shade a parking lot of a medical center adjunct to a local hospital. Happy Earth Day, folks!
Well at least most of us I do know a few saints but I agree as a people something has went wrong since the ww2 generation that built our country like our forefathers wanted
I remember a field trip to the local zoo when I was in elementary school. Across from the ape exhibit, there was a wall that said, see the world's most dangerous animal. I walked around behind the wall, and there was a huge mirror.
I was picking up rubbish off the field I walk my dogs on, and every day there's more to pick up, it's like I was never there, I havent done it in while, because ill health has stopped me leaving the house, I dread to think what it's like now, my small effort wasnt much, but it kept some mess away.
I've been using another Walt Kelly quote:
"We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities"
and adding
"and a poverty of imagination"
when posting about the environment
these days.
Geotherapy not geoengineering, please
Me too. Young teen. It helped build my worldview. I would like to thank my unusually hip parents for bringing it home. Gone a pretty long time now, Berti and AC, you did ok.
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Lily, Rose and Poppy, who
NEEDS Anemones?... #haiku #five-seven-five
I bought a plastic inflatable Schmoo back then.
“How dare you behave like what you are?” A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth.
Potluck Pogo, 1954, 55
Been holding on to these for years now
Still great.
People runnin around half naked in open fields throwing beachballs in the air...
Oh wait
Maybe that was Woodstock?
🤔😳
It didn’t seem like a big deal.
Oops… wrong…
Mea culpa
Mea culpa
Mea culpa…
"We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities"
and adding
"and a poverty of imagination"
when posting about the environment
these days.
Geotherapy not geoengineering, please
#EarthDay #ClimateChange
And it wasn't controversial.
Imagine.