Wisdoms from the Journey - Vol VI (Dec 2012 thru May 2013)

Saving the World: Step One …
(04/22/2013)
Happy Earth Day, my Friends! … In honor of our beautiful planet — a
Home we are currently destroying and dirtying at an alarming rate, I suggest that
today we all DO SOMETHING to help Her. And what I am suggesting is a much
easier solution than many of those offered by the many thousands of Caring Earthactivists
these days …
*I am not asking you to walk to work (or to bike, or to commute, or to use
public transportation) in order to help weaken the stranglehold that big oil has on
our world …
*I am not asking you to take shorter showers, to replace your lawns with
low-maintenance groundcovers or to stop running the tap while you brush your
teeth (though most think-tank intellectuals do believe that the next world war will indeed
be fought over clean water) …
* I am not asking you to create less garbage or to recycle the garbage that
you do create (compost, people — compost! It’s the best way to feed those home-grown
vegetables) …
Nope … All I am asking you to do is make one small shift in your diet: All
I & the Earth are asking you to do is to stop eating meat & dairy products for one
day … Because in that one day (TODAY), you & you alone will do your part in
saving planet Earth … Because In just that one day (TODAY), you will save well
over 5000+ gallons of fresh water, you will save the lives of literally hundreds of
trees, and you will lessen the amount of air pollution produced by more than ten
automobiles. All this for the Earth in just one day of veganism … just one day,
FOR every day you choose to do so!
Now I know that that there are many other very important reasons to
replace the meat & milk in your diet with healthier alternatives, and yet saving our
planet is a pretty good place to start …
… After all, it’s the only
place we have.
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