Daily sunrise offers each of us choices to help or harm the environment. What do you choose? Do the decisions you make help or harm where you reside?

I think most LB'ers try and help the environment rather than hurt it. Like recycling and picking up trash in the woods whenever they are LB'ing. I'm sure everyone saw in the news a few weeks ago about the floating trash pile in the ocean that was bigger than France(I think). People talking about trying to start to scoop it out slowly. This problem will NEVER get fixed. I was in the navy over 20 years ago on an aircraft carrier that carries over 5000 people. Do you realize how much garbage this many people create in just 1 day? Do you know what happens to it? Its bagged up, holes poked in them so they sink, and then thrown off the back of the ship. Then the marines shoot at them for target practice before they sink. And why do we want the trash to sink? Because a Russian spy ship is back there trying to scoop it out of the water to find any sort of valuable info. Now think of every military ship in the world doing this not just for a day or 2, but for say a century. And the next century. I doubt this process has changed within the last 20 years unless some one else out there would like to enlighten us.

I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
Alice Walker

Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child(person) discovering what he or she cares about.
Seymour Simon

Only the most arrogant, shortsighted, and spiritually bereft of our species would say that, at any cost to other species, we need only worry about our own.
Timothy Walker

It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our beautiful warm home in this cold universe! If you are a (wo)man of high moral standing, you will protect the Earth with all your heart! Earth is the only real holy temple on earth! The more we love the earth, the more we will be loved by the earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan

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I doubt this process has changed within the last 20 years

Actually it has. I too spent over 20 years on aircraft carriers and remember well hauling trash to the fantail to be thrown overboard and sunk. If it didn't sink on it's own it was shot up with small arms fire. In a couple of instances it was used as targets for bombing practices.
But today all carriers (and small boys) are equipped with massive incinerators just for this purpose. I'm not too sure how the system works but I'm happy that the trash is no longer being dumped overboard. A Navy Buddy recently told me that should the incinerator be broken or not able to be used the trash is piled up until it is usable again, that dumping trash into the oceans is totally illegal even for the military.

Our hope seems to be with our youth. Boyan Slat first developed this idea when he was very young. Then at 18 he founded an organization to move forward with his invention. They have job openings in the Netherlands. If only I were mathy. . . It does give one hope. It's never been that we can't do something, it's that we don't truly want to until the consequences affect us in a painfully direct way. It's juvenile really and one of the reasons I cannot tolerate plastic water bottles or ANY of the unnecessary plastic crap we seem addicted to. I feel guilty buying shampoo. My vision of an intelligent store is huge vats of basic stuff: shampoo, for example, that you refill into glass bottles, then add scents to -- or NOT-- based on your preference. Until it costs us, we just don't care. There are people who live here who drink nothing but bottled water. They pay more per gallon for it than the gas they complain goes over whatever threshold they currently find acceptable. Irony is the building block of the universe, for sure.

On a side note, to my mind, it also highlights the need for better gifted education. They are the innovators. Just sayin'.

And when I feel truly beaten by man's stupidity, I watch one of these and feel better.

Palm Oil, Anyone?

Breath & Balance

Of all the TED talks I've watched, these 2 just stuck with me. I think if Smits got any smarter, his head would explode. The interdisciplinary nature of his restoration project blew me away. And the balancing act is hypnotic and other things I don't have time to go all metaphorically poetic about but easily could.

Irony is the building block of the universe, for sure.

Not iron. It's actually hydrogen. ;-)