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"Pure Opinions"
World Environment Day
Today, June 5, is World Environment Day, formerly known as Arbor Day. This year it is being hosted in Mexico.
On one lonely day of the year, the UN 'stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action' - reminds us to consider the environment. Throughout the rest of the year, we can go back to pretending we live in a clean green country.
Sadly for us, we listen to our own hype. Clean green? One of the main factor in our veneer of 'clean green' is the size of our population. If a much bigger population had been allowed to live with our wastefulness and carelessness, 'clean green' would be a nonsense.
And we have been prepared to believe to this nonsense rather than make real change to our attitudes and our decisions about the environment - we've brushed environmental issues under the carpet. Landfills are a good example - it's great we are thinking about landfills but we also have to consider the farm land that is damaged every time a new one opens...
But it's never too late to rethink these things, to Get Real. We have to support organic agriculture which values the land, and values real sustainability. So here's to fresh thinking on World Environment Day.
Posted by Robert Glensor on 6th June, 2009 | Comments | Trackbacks
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