My Feelings About Earth Day

Earth Day is nice for a friendly reminder to help do your part in keeping the Earth healthy. It not only reminds us to turn off our lights but it also gives us a day to learn more about the things we can do to help be more sustainable and reduce our carbon footprint. Not to mention, it is a day of celebration for the amazing things, creatures, and places that are on this earth and helps to remind us that the earth is more than just humans going to work and school and coming home every day. What we do directly affects the planet we live on. If I make two trips to the store a week, rather than planning in advance and making a single trip a week, I'm wasting my money-- as well as releasing more CO2 into the air from my extra driving and wasting our limited fossil fuels. Although I recognize Earth Day as a time of celebrating all living things on earth and a time to help wake people up again to restart or adopt new habits to be more eco-friendly, I have mixed feelings about an Earth Day. I like the idea of waking people up to remind them that they directly affect everything on earth in the decisions they make; however, I do not believe that it should only be once a year. It makes me sad that we have an excuse once a year to wake up, when the world needs us to be aware of its needs everyday. We become so busy, but we can't afford to do something good for the Earth one week out of the year. I do feel that it is important in bringing about new information and reminding people to do their part though... without any reminders and awareness, many people would not think anything about their bad habits. Earth Day has only been around for 40 years or so and should continue to be around as long as earth is around, but people should act more like every day is earth day in their habits.