<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for We need Earth Day more than ever]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by mayo615 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-we-need-earth-day/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:56:57 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-we-need-earth-day/1 Some may call Earth Day a PR stunt, as with Earth Hour, but we need something to smack people in the head. I live in a very environmentally hostile community...people writing letters to the local editor lambasting any environmental awareness...you can probably fill in the blanks...In a community like this it is going to take years to even approach the consciousness of other communities around the globe...The more of this kind of stuff the better... On the first Earth Day  in 1970, I was one of a group of students who symbolically buried a Ford Maverick (later dug up and recycled). For over 30 years not much changed...but now finally the worm has begun to turn...

]]> Some may call Earth Day a PR stunt, as with Earth Hour, but we need something to smack people in the head. I live in a very environmentally hostile community...people writing letters to the local editor lambasting any environmental awareness...you can probably fill in the blanks...In a community like this it is going to take years to even approach the consciousness of other communities around the globe...The more of this kind of stuff the better... On the first Earth Day  in 1970, I was one of a group of students who symbolically buried a Ford Maverick (later dug up and recycled). For over 30 years not much changed...but now finally the worm has begun to turn...

]]> Comment #2 by Green Granny http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-we-need-earth-day/ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:47:50 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-we-need-earth-day/2 Comment #3 by spector70 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-we-need-earth-day/ Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:35:16 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-we-need-earth-day/3 I'm all for Earth Day and I think that those who are bashing it should really stop looking upon themselves as gods and instead of condemning a well meant day, they should be there to encourage others.  "Screw Earth Day" lends absolutely no encouragement to others.  It's fully arrogant and without merit.


Earth Day is the only holiday that I celebrate and I will never, ever subscribe to the notion that it is improper to celebrate our planet just as others celebrate Easter or Christmas.  It's absurd to expect environmentalists or anyone else to not celebrate Earth Day.


Happy Earth Day.  Always believe in the UNIVERSE.  See it, hear it, touch it, taste it, and smell it.



]]> I'm all for Earth Day and I think that those who are bashing it should really stop looking upon themselves as gods and instead of condemning a well meant day, they should be there to encourage others.  "Screw Earth Day" lends absolutely no encouragement to others.  It's fully arrogant and without merit.


Earth Day is the only holiday that I celebrate and I will never, ever subscribe to the notion that it is improper to celebrate our planet just as others celebrate Easter or Christmas.  It's absurd to expect environmentalists or anyone else to not celebrate Earth Day.


Happy Earth Day.  Always believe in the UNIVERSE.  See it, hear it, touch it, taste it, and smell it.



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