Earth Day and Humans Don't Mesh!

When my human turned on the computer this morning her home page said Celebrating 40 Years of Earth Day; since I’m not 40; I thought it was time to check out this Earth Day shit! So here is what I learned:

On April 22, 1970, Senator Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin held an environmental teach-in (you know one of those sessions where controversial issues are debated). Anyway, it was supposedly started to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment.

Well, I suppose that means a natural environment right? Okay, let’s talk about a natural environment which is all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth. So, I’m going outdoors to check out the natural environment, back in a few…..

I’m back; let me tell you about my natural environment. I walked out the door onto a cement pad (is that natural?) okay from there I walked onto the dirt and gravel in the driveway (I guess that would be the non-living stuff) then onto the grass, filled with weeds (Huh, check it out, living stuff) there were trees, and along the base of the property where the creek flows (now, this is where I get confused, is a creek a living or a dead thing… well, I guess it’s time for a little kitty philosophy…)

Is a creek a live or dead thing? Well, live things in the environment grow; when it rains the creek grows. Live things in the environment change; creeks change; the path they take the stuff they carry along. Naturally dead things like dirt and stones just sit there unless a human or animal moves it. A creek does not just sit there; it constantly moves.

Okay, as a philosopher, I say a creek is alive; but, I got a bit off track. Today we are dealing with Earth Day. Now, the grass, weeds, bugs, birds; well, they are all pretty great, but what about the candy wrappers, the sand and salt left behind by road crews over the winter, or plastic water bottles. Water bottles, isn’t that interesting, I either drink water from the faucet or out of a puddle, why do humans need to buy water in plastic bottles?

Further more, the neighbor’s house is falling apart and all the wood that fell from his staircase is laying in my environment. The winter accumulation of salt and sand has claimed a good two feet of lawn space along the highway and what do humans do; they suck the dirt from the road and leave the crap in everyone else’s yards. My natural environment would be much better without humans, but at least my human tries to get rid of the litter left behind by others. She has natural ailments that make it difficult to do things; but she works at it.

As a kitty philosopher; I say that Earth Day has not worked. The only way that humans would take care of their natural environment is if there was a catastrophe about to occur because of something they did. I bet, as soon as the catastrophe was diverted, stupid humans would start doing the same things to their environment that caused the near catastrophe. Humans seem to have short spans of recollection.

So, my true philosophy of the day; if you really want Earth Day to work; you have to ditch the humans!