April 22. A day to embrace the hip-ness of “reduce, reuse, recycle.” Supported by many and hated by others, its an interesting concept.

Frankly I don’t care.

The Problem with Earth Day

Earth day is a singular day where people all think about how good it is to be green, and worry their little heads over global warming. Twenty-four hours later, life goes on as normal, and there is rarely any significant impact…

Can you see why I dislike it so?

Any person who truely cares about environmentalism or “taking care of our planet,” does not need the fanfare of a celibrated day and cute little flags to keep them going. They will go on their chosen path with sweat and blood regardless.

What Earth day does, however, is it lets the whole nation get away with saying “I believe”.

Yes, we all believe. We buy those dainty little CFL’s and sit on our haunches, waiting for someone to fix the problem(s) for us. Earth Day acts as a “guilt-sink” that allows believer’s to feel complacent.

That or you just don’t care…

The Global Warming debacle

There have been few things that I have seen in my 16 years of living that matches the conglomerate mess of “Global Warming”

Simply:
*C02 is the enemy!
*CFL’s are uber-good!
*Al Gore is the almighty! (okay thats a pot-shot…)

…A vast simplification. It show’s how little I know about global warming. And yet, I can work myself into a political fervor, screaming my rightousness to all that can hear. I’ve seen it done.

Obviously I am misinformed at some level, and I believe that most of my peers share this fault. This is propagated further by the lack of primary sources (no I do not consider Al Gore a primary source), and the massive sharing of “credible” advice.

The human mind is amazing at simplifying complex ideas into workable chunks, but global warming has been over-simplified. Diluted into an unintelligible muck beyond use.

Shedding the Unimportant
Overall, my objection on this subject is the global allowance of the half-ass. Everyone has something to say, commands about what should be done, and an amazing ability to do nothing at the same time.

The people who care, speak it with their actions. Those that believe, move with their hearts. And everyone who truely represents Earth Day, already lives it.

Let’s not get in their way, shall we?

You can say that you believe in Earth Day, but I question how far that belief will take you.