Woohoo...! The good news is that today's topic is the "environment".
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-individual-action-is-not-enough
My contribution to this topic is this: We should no longer refer to the Earth, our home, as the "environment"! It may seem like a trivial matter of semantics, but it isn't! The "environment" sounds like some distant third party "thing". Referring to the Earth, our home on the other hand is much more personal and meaningful! We tend to take better care of things we love and relate to.
Another point i want to make is this: Capitalize the e in Earth when referring to Earth, our home! Our Earth is a living breathing organism, so we should be refer to it by its personal name the Earth. We give more respect to John Doe or Mars, Jupiter and Pluto than we do to the Earth when we don't capitalize the e. This is lunacy. No wonder we don't take very good care of the "earth" or the "environment". Humanity's home will be the Earth for a long time, so let's take better care of Her, ok ?
Finally, a nice side effect of changing how we refer to the "environment", is that the label "environmentalist" will fade away. The new term will be Earthists! It won't be as easy to "pigeon hole" people that love the Earth, our home by calling them "those darned Earthists"! We could simply reply ,"Who are you, an alien, perhaps a Marsist ? If you don't like it on Earth, go back to your own planet. Don't trash our home!". QED
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Ted, you should buy ecosistency.com before someone else does, and then publish your blog under that name... Simple to change with Blogger's new Publish settings. I recently did this for my own blog. If you don't get the domain name, someone else could buy it and monetize it.
The Earth should be refered to as a LIFE RAFT, that we all must try to survive on. Please share and get along with one another and we may last a little longer out here in the middle of no where.
Thanks Ken the Junkman.
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