It almost got past me! Today is Blog Action Day. I expect there will be a lot of talk out there about environmentalism. My two cents will go in as well.
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Let me start though, by saying that the human race is not the enemy of the earth. I really think that a lot of people are over reacting to some things and that it is an abysmal joke that Al Gore received a Nobel Prize for environmentalism..
But just because I do not share all things in common with some environmentalists, that does not mean that dominion over and stewardship of the rest of creation is completely unimportant..
As you can see in this old photo, we allowed our son's face to become messy while he ate. We cleaned everything up afterward, but we didn't hover over him with a sanitizing wipe after each smudge. His mess was normal. It was not deliberate, so we did not take offense..
The thing that really gets me is a deliberate disregard for others, like when people empty their car's trash on the street. Or discarding anything on the sidewalk rather than inside a waste receptacle. If the wind carries a candy wrapper out of the trash and into my lawn, it's okay; I'll pick it up with no hard feelings. But don't let me catch anyone casually tossing an ice cream wrapper on my lawn. That bugs me worse than dandelions!
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