Where will you be 50 years from now?
Many, maybe a majority of current PDN subscribers will have to answer the same as I.
Anyone now in their fifties won’t be here, as well as most forty somethings.
Regularly, you see people sitting in their cars, trucks, SUV’s talking on their phone, looking at screens for an hour or more, while the engine’s running.
Talking with their neighbor for half an hour, while their vehicle idles on the street.
Vehicles left running out in parking lots, its owners gone inside shopping, getting their mail, etc.
At grocery stores, supermarkets, even at the Food COOP in PT.
Several times I’ve waited around, hoping to meet the owner to ask politely: Are you not aware what our vehicles exhausts are doing to Earth’s atmosphere?
Every gallon burned creates 20 pounds of CO2, a vapor lighter than air and major contributor to global temperatures increasing.
Engines left running, idling, do no useful work, other than destroying the atmosphere the kids today will be living under.
We each have the ability now to change the future today.
By being more responsible, more thoughtful, more conscious of the effect all our actions today will have on this incredible planet even when we’re no longer here.
Businesses as well as schools should post notices prohibiting-limiting idling.
What good is amassing wealth, property and assets for our descendants if we leave behind a more divided, more violent and more polluted planet that we’ve thoughtlessly made unlivable?
Tom LaRue
Carlsborg