We just watched "An Inconvenient Truth." Al Gore did a phenomenal job pulling all his research of the past thirty-some years together to create this documentary. It should be required watching.
I've said that a lot lately... "This should be required reading," or "This should be required watching." The "problem" is that we live in a "free" country, and you can't make anyone read or watch something. Just like you can't make someone recycle.
That brings be to a conversation I had with a relative at Christmas...
We recently signed up for the "Food Plus" program with our garbage/recycle company. We have a cute little blue bin that we keep under the kitchen sink, and a large container outside, where all things food waste go. I mean, we're talking anything from the scraps you cut off your chicken to the paper plate you use when your dishwasher is broken, and you eat 5-6 times a day, and you don't want to spend your entire day washing dishes. A bonus to the Food Plus program is that it includes yard waste. So, for $8 per month, we can decrease our amount of "trash," clean up the leaves in our yard, and do our part to save the planet. How great is that?
So... back to my conversation with a relative. I am so excited about the Food Plus Program (I know, it's the little things) that I decided to ask, "Are you doing the Food Plus Program?" My relative darted his eyes and said, "No!" I intitially thought, "uh-oh, I've said something offensive," but then I thought, "How offensive could a question about food scraps be?"
Turns out, I was just being overly sensitive, and thought the "No!" was meaning something negative. What my relative really wanted to say was that they compost themselves, for the benefit of their own garden. Whew! What a relief! :)
And then, later in the conversation, this same relative said, "why not just toss the styrofoam in the fire pit along with the plastic, and let it burn!" He was sort of kidding... I hope.
So what's the purpose of this blog? Heck, I don't really know, but for some reason, with the falling snow outside... (at the time of writing, it has accumulated 8 inches in less than 5 hours, 19 inches are forecasted) and this being our second big snowfall of the year, when we usually get none to a couple of inches, it's just got me thinking about what Al Gore said in "An Inconvenient Truth."
Ever since Dotti moved to the Pacific Northwest in the Summer of 2002, she has said, "Thank you, Honey, for bringing me 'Home'." That's how much she loves it here, with the "mild" climate." Now she's saying, "Honey, were you tricking me? Where's this weather coming from?"
"What Global Warming?????"
Just as you are doing your part to make a difference in the world as it pertains to people's understanding of GLBT people, please do your part to help heal our planet!
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