Earth Day

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with an even bigger fist.  If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally.  Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power.  His fairness.  His very existence.  But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple.  She never claimed conceited omnipotence.  She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves.  To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge.  Go play outside.  Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand.  I have no time for idle whining.

… and that basically summarizes my entire view of earth and environmental responsibility.

I hope everyone was extra-super-conscious of being environmentally conscious and responsible. April 22nd is Earth Day, and this entire week was actually Earth Week. I am a fan of Earth Day because it is a day where we celebrate the Earth. Its beauty and fragility that man can’t seem to grasp. It’s the very thoughts and handiwork of God Himself. Earth, his Masterpiece. Environmentalists blame Christians because many Christians take on the belief that man has complete control of the planet, and if we destroy it, being God’s favourites- it’s fine… because he’s building a new home for us. These are the Christians I would like to call the  thick-headed, self-righteous, pompous Pharisees of the 20th Century.

We are not the spoiled youngest child in the family who gets away with everyone. No way in hell, heaven or anywhere else buddy. It is simply our insufferable arrogance that assumes that it’s all there for us simply to enjoy. We are not entitled to the planet. We are responsible for it. He put the animals under our control, not for us to exploit it and not give a shit about them, but to take care of them. He cares for the hungry sparrow, why wouldn’t he care for his every small creation? We have a responsibility, and it’s time we stepped up to it.

Now we can pick a day a year, talk about what needs to be done, and then wait till next year because we didn’t have the time to finish what needed to be done, and after all- Earth Day is for the Earth, the rest is for us to do what we please with it. One day a year for the planet from which we take our very sustenance, without which we could not have survived. She shields us from UV Rays and produces the very air we breathe. What do we do in return? We give her a day a year.

This might sound a bit cliché, but here’s the deal.

Every single day on Earth is Earth Day.

Every single day should be lived to minimize our ecological footprint as much as possible. Every single day should we be “eco-friendly” and “green”… Because if Earth decided, alright then, only April 22nd is Human Day. I’ll give them air and water, and protect them for the day. Guess what, we’d be dead, UV-roasted, suffocating, dehydrated meat.

Do not mess with Mother Nature. She knows what she’s doing. And you know what, forget it. Forget the help part. She doesn’t want your help. She doesn’t want you to take care of her children, our siblings oh no- she just wants us to stop murdering them.