To the editor,
There appears to be no end to the rhetoric concerning the environment, whether it is about global warming, no global warming, carbon emissions, fossil fuels, bio-fuels, wind, solar or other issues that are headline worthy discussion points.
It can drive a poor country boy crazy. I even read an article where in Europe they are going to tax livestock because they emit gas into the environment. Now that really confuses an ole farm boy. How is taxing livestock going to keep them from their God-given right to flatulence? Figure that one out. Besides, I don’t think it is healthy for a cow to “hold it in” for a lifetime. What are they trying to do? Kill Bessie? No, I’m not trying to milk this for all it’s worth. Little humor here, or as my wife would say, very little.
I am also sick of celebrities that tell the rest of the world how to live and then fly off in private jets. Oh, and then they make a donation to a carbon footprint foundation to make them feel better. Like my daddy used to say about such people “It’s much easier to write a check than to check a wrong.” Okay, my daddy didn’t say that, but he should have. Some people like to walk the talk and others just talk. My daddy did say something about these folks, but I can’t write it in this paper.
What is a feller to do about all this? Well, as Goethe said “Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world would be clean.” I like that a lot. It puts it right here in Murfreesboro, right on my steps where it should begin. You can’t change the world until you change yourself and then you can change one person at a time. We would love to change a billion at a time, but it just doesn’t work. I guess that it would be too easy and we don’t usually learn the easy way, do we? I know that I don’t.
I know that you are probably saying to yourself “What are you doing about this except for writing a pretty silly letter?” Not as much as I could, I’m sure. My pick-up gets 30 mpg, I recycle my paper products, plastic bottles and aluminum cans, keep my house temperature at 75 degrees in the summer and 68 in the winter, turn off the AC for two-three months of the year and enjoy fresh air for a change. I know that this isn’t enough, but it is a start and we all have to start something if we’re ever going to finish it. I guess I had better go now. I’ve got to go sweep my steps. Man, is this environmental stuff hard or what?
Joe Thompson
Creekside Drive |
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