Top 5 reasons why are not doing our part to save the planet!!!

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Global warming, climate change, sky rocketing fuel prices are but few of the problems we are facing today and mind you that these are no laughing matter because we only have one shot at this planet we call home. We hear tips and suggestions on how to go green and help keep our planet hospitable to life, but why are we not doing it? Here's what I thought why. 1. We are in denial. Like any other pressing issue that we thought it's big and are too much for us to handle, what we do is deny that they exist. The same thing happens with environmental issues. We deny it exists so that we can go along with the normal routine that we are so used to. Like leaving the water running while we are shaving or brushing our teeth. 2. We think it's expensive. Yes at first it can be expensive, like changing your incandescent bulbs to compact flourescent bulbs (CFL's). But you'll reap the benefits later when you see that electric bill go down that same month you change those bulbs in your house because CFL's are 75% more energy efficient than incandescent ones. Not to mention the saving on power generation, this in turn saves carbon dioxide emissions. 3. We are not fully informed. We are not fully informed on the impact of the things that we do or we don't do to the environment. For instance we are not fully aware that using neither paper nor plastic for our groceries can save millions of trees a year from being harvested to make papers. Or those plastics can take hundreds or years to fully decay in landfills. When we throw trash away to landfills, I wouldn't want to call that "throwing away"; I just want to call that transferring. They're never really thrown away, where is away, Mars? So the best thing to do when you go to grocery stores is to bring your own re-washable cloth bag with you. Or bring your own thermos mug when you want to grab a Starbucks, they'll even give you 10 cents discount for saving on styro cups. 4. We don't have time. We all don't have time for now but we're still here, we're still striving; however, not for long if we don't do anything to save our planet. A couple of thousand of people can't do the job alone; we all have to pitch in for our part. If we leave and breathe Oxygen and run our feet on ground, then we have the responsibility to participate in saving our planet. Another thing is becuase we are so used to the things that we do now - things that are detrimental to the planet - we say that going green takes too much of our already meager time. But the sooner we are going to incorporate going green to our daily routine, the sooner we are going to get used to it so that we'll realized that saving our planet takes no time at all. 5. We just don't talk about it. Sure there are a lot of conventions, headlines, and news about global warming on TV, but they stay there on TV. They never really get into our household. We never really talk about it with our kids, or we hardly talk about it during family dinner. But I strongly believe that if we just create enough buzz on this issue down to the household level, we can be able to start out a green revolution for our planet's sake. I would like to apply the law of attraction here. If we just talk about it whenever we can, discuss it with our children and family, we can be able to attract attention towards it and create enough clamors to encourage everybody to there part in saving our planet. I created this discussion to inform everybody that the problem on climate change is real and urgent, however, we are not powerless to turn things around for the next generation if we just act today. We are not powerless about it; there certainly are things that we can do right at our own home to participate in this great challenge to mankind. If you know of some forums where I can posts this discussion of mine, please inform me, because I would like to get this message to as many people as I can. This is one of my ways of acting on the fift reason I gave why we do not do our part of saving our planet. Keep safety all!!!