Mascara was running down my cheeks as I bitterly wiped them off and stumbled down the stairs with two inch heels. I had been signed up for another environmental action thingy again. I had just blubbered my eyes out listening to the former head pastor's daughters talk about what a beautiful person their mother was. She was one of the best speakers that I had known. She was active in our fight for the masses. She was an inspiration that left the earth in a pleasant state after getting the news two years ago that she had developed ALS.
In the basement of the church we were holding a Environmental Film Festival for the city of Oak Park. It would have been something our pastor would have loved. I was very much aware of Global Warming and the opinions that chased after it. But I wasn't expecting to have my eyes widened further.
The first film was about soil. When you were younger you remember tracking mud through the house, your parents screaming at you because they had gotten the carpet cleaned. You remember driving on the highway glancing at the small patches of dirt and noticing the crackled texture. You always thought soil is just soil and nothing more. At least that was what I thought. Like my mom had always said with her tree hugging ways the earth is alive and so is everything in it. The soil contains the producers and decomposes that create and destroy life only to renew it. It is only a small component but with out soil that doesn't contain the nutrients like nitrogen and carbon we can't grow things. Thus using com-posters which is natural to the environment because of the vast number of phosphorus gases that are released by the decomposition. It is better than using fertilizers that may grow our plants but cause our water to be tainted with minerals that were never suppose to enter that bio sphere. So when you look at the bag of fertilizer you just bought from a market or a large company like Home Depot think about your children who will fight over water because years of abuse has cause most of the water to develop toxicity to our bodies.
The second film was about a little movement called 350. It like most movement is defiantly grass root and has a goal to wipe the thoughts of burning fossil fuels off the face of the earth.
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The film is called Do the Math and it is about the epic change that we are putting our environment through. Gore may have been saying this was going to happen but these two men aren't the first nor will they be the last. You may get tired of hearing change. Because we all hate it, you could be that one person who says I look at change as a bright thing and we sure enough will hate you for it. Change can make us grow in ways we never thought possible but without the help of everyone we may not see tomorrow. We have lengthened the stride by using more an more fossil fuels. We have turned this heavenly oasis of all the things earth provides and turned it into trash. Look around this is the only place we will ever know unless technology finds a home else where. We don't want to look like Venus or cause another Permian extinction. Our species was built for survival of not only the fittest but of the smaller creatures. Oil companies have tainted this country and the rest of the world for far to long so I say why don't we take it back as a unity of people willing to change for the better.
