Posts Tagged ‘Symbolic Gestures’

It’s been a few days since I’ve posted and I’ve been feeling the need to write a post… especially as Earth Day approaches.

Unfortunately, many would consider me to have a bad attitude about Earth Day. Why? Because I don’t see a point in making symbolic gestures.

I would much rather see someone make a small improvement about how they care for their environment rather than make lots of feel good comments and actions that are really only symbolic.

I read a great article at ScouseVeg that echoed my thoughts. Here is an excerpt from it.

Here’s part of the comment I left in response to the article.

Let’s do this. Let’s teach our children to walk to school instead of drive. Let’s teach our children to turn off the lights. Let’s teach our children to not leave the water running, to put on a sweater, to close the windows, to not litter, to buy local organic produce…

… and maybe we’ll learn to do the same.

You can read the complete article at Earth Day 2009 - An Opinion.