Do Your Part For Climate Change

As part of Blog Action Day, I'd like to officially encourage you to do some things you're probably not doing already:
• recycle
• pick up your trash
• get outside more
• ride your bike or go for a walk
• be a good neighbor
• meet your neighbor
• help the elderly
• be patriotic
• use a trash can instead of the sidewalk or my front lawn
• hug your kids and spend a little time with them
• turn off the TV
• eat real honest-to-God sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup
• read a book

and, perhaps most importantly,

• get involved in your own life.

Most of those things are things that any good Boy Scout knows to do. Basically, unplug yourself and be a part of the world around you. Live the way your grandparents lived. Live a more simple life.

Forget the propaganda about global warming. It's crap and junk science. The kind of climate change I'm talking about is the climate around you - your family, your friends, your kids, your neighbors, your community and yourself. You want to make a difference in the world? That's the way to do it. Make your own personal ecosystem better.

Every town could be Mayberry if only the people who live there expect more of themselves and their neighbors. Hold each other accountable, and don't be afraid to take someone to task for something they do wrong. Have pride in yourself and your community. Be respectful. Be tolerant. No one is perfect, but giving up and refusing to even try to be a decent person is unacceptable. It's also, unfortunately, widely accepted in today's world. The "who am I to criticize what they're doing" mentality that has crept into our society in the past forty years or so is a prime culprit for what suddenly went wrong with our culture and our society. When people didn't allow just anything to go in their communities there was less crime, less pollution and more community.

And be aware. Be aware of what's being shoved down your throat every day. The prime culprit is the government, whether it be local municipalities, the civic association, the state legislative body, or the federal government. Every day, we're being told that we can't do this or we're being told exactly how we have to do that. Our liberties and our rights are being stripped from us in tiny bites. We swallow each bite and are force-fed the next bit. We look back twenty years and realize we've eaten half an elephant. Before we know it, it will be the whole thing.

So on this Blog Action Day, don't try to cram some agenda down someone's throat (and don't swallow someone else's agenda, either). Quit trying to force people to be or do things they aren't. Instead, look in the mirror and try to make the world a better, cleaner place. People are basically good, and I believe that most people want to be good, decent people. Don't try to change the whole world all at once. Start with your world and lead by being a role model and a positive example. It doesn't take long to make a real difference in the local, national and world climate that way.







Now, give me my damn Nobel peace prize.