I wonder if Henry Thoreau is still alive today, would he be surprised at how discoloured, filthy, and hostile the people of the 20th century is to the environment? Instead of keeping environmental management at the local level where it is most efficient, like Thoreau, a hundred years later after his death, we had abandoned his idea of local environment maintenance and chose to move toward green nationalism, an act allowing the government to regulate the enviroment. In theory it looks perfect, on the contrary, in action it fails miserably.
As history has taught us, it is not always wise to allow the government to protect the environment from being contaminated.Yet, this is exactly what we are doing in the past and present. Look at how many multicorporations had escaped from being punish because their acts were supported and covered up by Presidents and world leaders.
However, on todays' Earth Day, I would like to hope - that people would either start or continue to be environmentally friendly, despite lousy environmental actions taken by our national leaders. We cannot change litterbugs or uncouth drivers from throwing their cigarettes out from their car window nor can we prevent multicorporations from dumping industrial liquid waste into the sea but for those who are aware, like you and me, we do not need any rules and regulations to prevent nature from decaying. The first step to conserve nature starts from our doorstep - Reduce, reuse, recycle.
