Happy Earth day. yes, that’s “day.” with a period, not “day!” with an exclamation point. Personally, i have little to celebrate about. I turn on the radio, (and having left the station on WFAN from the mets broadcast the day before) and i hear morning host craig carton making fun of  former NY Giant Dhani Jones for caring about his carbon footprint. By the way, my sister got me into Dhani’s new show on the travel channel where he goes all over the world playing other sports and learning about other cultures: Dhani tackles the world. (It’s a great show!). Jim just said yesterday: doing things, and going new places changes your mind (plasticity).

It’s a really popular meme that is making headway just about everywhere i turn. Laughing off global warming and climate change. It infuriates me. Especially when it comes from people who would never laugh off the very far off possibility of Islamist extremists destroying our way of life. I kinda get older people so entrenched and comfortable in their way of life not wanting to change that, (not really) but when you have a podium like that, and you spew your ignorant take on what is happening with no caveat on how you have no care or concern about the subject, please excuse me, but it infuriates me. 

When i mentioned watching the nova special Extreme Ice last night to friends, i was alarmed most of them had the idea that the effects of increased carbon in our environment would take decades to materialize. That just isnt true. Watch the videos. Look at the melting. it’s happening, and it’s happening faster than we imagined. 

So, for our cohort who has started to complicate our lives and thinking with social networks and using the internet, i pose a challenge i think is totally in our skill set. 

Calculate the cost of things. Calculate the cost of everything. Calculate externalities. Understand the difference btw shampooing everyday and every other day. Know what it means to not recycle everyday products,  and electronic goods. Understand shampoo. Understand meat everyday. Calculate your life. Think about ,when you do the things you do, Newton’s third law of motion; equal and opposite action. That with everything we do, it sets into being another thing.  And although ignoring that is our right as free people, we should always realize that these effects are there and are numerous. Calculate your routine.

My thing i have to get over is long showers. or wasting water. It’s something i have had a huge problem shaking even though it makes no sense to do what i do with water at times. 

This is my confession, my testemonial.

Sometimes….too many times, i sit on the toilet, reading the news, while the water in the shower runs, down the drain, unused. I also have sinned against the earth by brushing my teeth in the shower. AND I DONT KNOW WHY! it’s as if my brain is in a logic hiccup. like it all of a sudden has become dana carvey in clean slate, or guy peirce in momento, doomed to resource killing over and over again.

that felt good. it’s out there now. i have admitted it. i need to stop. i just can’t wrap my mind around why it’s so hard to do all the things i do, but this one thing, this having the shower run when i am not in it, i just cant shake. maybe admitting it to the internet is my first step.