Why the Earth needs to be saved

So this is apparently "Blog Action Day" and we're supposed to write about the environment.

Want me to write about the environment? Fine.

The reason the Earth needs saving and why people can't change is because it's just too hard.

You see, people aren't too concerned about the difference between driving a car to work and taking public transit. It's all the same to them, even if the reason public transit takes longer is because no one takes it, therefore the funding for it doesn't exist. But it's habitual to drive a car. And old habits die hard. The car is just right there in the driveway--it's easier.

Same with every other environmental thing. Why wash bottles and carry them all the way to the recycling can when you could just toss it under the sink?

My family had no problem switching to a composter when the county provided a free, minature compost container for the kitchen, and a larger one that could be taken to the curb once a week for pickup. As long as environmentalism is easy, habitual, and inexpensive, all people are environmentalists.

But that first moment it becomes difficult, and BAM--everyone stops. The green people should take notice. They need better marketers. And philosophers, for that matter.


"Hope springs eternal... as does laziness."