An Earth Day Perspective

Happy Earth Day!

Yes, like all other important causes or significant societal happenings, we Americans and the rest of the Western cultures like to amount such importance and significance into one measly day of remembrance.

As if wearing an earth tee and posting a facebook status update will somehow end our speedy pace to environmental obscurity. We shall proudly take arms on this day and talk about savvy subjects such as "green living", "eco-friendly", and "alternative energies".
But alas, tomorrow's dawn will soon be upon us and we will quickly forget about how vital conservation and sustainability is to our growing population. Maybe another documentary will arise speaking of the potential devastation if we do not change our wasteful ways; to which we will shudder in fear, rally our calls to action, and like always, forget what we were saying. We're stuck in our ways as a global society and true change is going to take oh so much more than even the most elaborate marketing campaign for a "green earth".
So what do we do? Pull out the pitchforks and demand accountability? Well that would work had we not all been apart of the problem. Each and everyone of us makes choices that are unhealthy for Miss Nature. Each of us are apart of a humanity that has for too long forgotten about the importance of our living surroundings. And now with rising endangered species lists, coastal lines, dramatic and terrorizing acts of nature, we are left to wonder "what? how? and why??"

I'm not sure what we can come up with or how we can organize our communities, countries, and global society to function in a less depreciating way, but we must begin the conscience effort to do so starting now, on this very day. Because if the liberal-nutwing scientists who warn of a devastatingly dire future with mankind's relationship to Ms. Nature are right, we'll eventually find ourselves in a real-world sequel to Day After Tomorrow, only this time less Jake Gyllenhaal and pity for the humans who got each other into this mess.



And now for a little more green-living enjoyment, Green Porno, a Sundance original short series starring Isabella Rossellini, shows the at times sexy side of nature, a la Michael Gondry-like puppetering and costumes.
Direct link here: Green Porno 4 - Whale






Now go plant a tree!
--Drew