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Environment is the nicest thing to say. Most environmentalists are only in spoken and written mode environmentalists. Like all fundamental groups, the environmentalist (like you and me) is a kind of person you can talk about all the recent pollution news, the recent enviro-cars, hybrid or electric, the latest CO2 measurements and the ozone hole above the North Pole. Or above the United States.

When I was 9, there were some cartoons broadcasted on the TV, called “Captain Planet”. I watched the full series, never missed an episode and by that time I didn’t know a thing about the environment. Maybe you did watch it, too. All I knew then was that oily duck swimming in the ocean flooded by Iraqi oil, and Michael Jackson’s “Heal the world”. That’s all.

But that’s not the end of it. I grew up self-consciously not to do any harm to trees, not to throw garbage on the grass fields, in parks, or even where they will surely get cleaned. I still do feel that way, because that’s the way I was grown up! I grew myself up, I might say, in that direction. My parents’ parents didn’t teach them to be that way. They didn’t have to. The world was already a clean place and there was enough room to throw out any quantity of CO2 or smog or anything else… the Earth was big enough for everybody. And that’s the reason we got where we are.

The GREAT question that puzzles me, is that although probably the majority of the “environmental friendly” people are christians, and they all read the Bible or even heard about it, IS that THE Bible never says anywhere about “not to pollute the environment”. I mean… ok, I read a few articles saying that the Bible was compiled by some scholars in the Middle Age, and there were political reasons to make it official - ok - no reason to promote or dismiss that idea - but why didn’t Jesus or any illuminated spirit teach us NOT to harm the trees? Even Noe’s arc is made of wood! (i’m not being absurd, of course they didn’t have anything else to build it of).

The fact is… as an environmentalist, “GIVE AN EXAMPLE”. Always give an example to others of how you do live. Give examples mostly to kids of how and where to throw things, of how to save electricity not for money’s sake, but explain them the true values of saving energy. As long as that energy comes from a land source, it pollutes. When it will come from the Sun or something exterior to Earth or some invisible world, it would not pollute as much. It would then create.

Everyone happens to forget that forests are not to throw bottles of any kind in, that rivers are not to wash your car with detergent in, and trees are not to cut if you didn’t try to recycle what you already have cut. Paper is not to waste. Water is as vital as blood - it is not free (i’m not talking about its money price).

So if you know what to do and someday you find it easier to throw a paper or something non-degradable on a sunny day while walking on a field, DO NOT DO IT! Put it in your bag, or your pocket, and throw it somewhere it can be recycled, or disposed somewhere special, at least. Even if anybody doesn’t see you, YOU SEE YOURSELF. You have to understand that this instruction and its execution are to be made consciously and individually. YOU MATTER. You are a single person, yet you matter as much as the whole crowd. This must be a viral message and you must act like a computer in a domain, or a sheep, because it is for your (and our) good. For humanity’s sake. For your children. For everybody’s children. They’re innocent, maybe yet unborn, and don’t deserve a dirty nature. And there’s much more to talk about.

Above all things, close your phone, lock your door, turn off your lights - right now, and take 5 minutes to think about it. Only you and yourself. Be honest - after all, we all want our Earth to be honest with us - in so many different ways…

5 minutes for your Earth…