You’ve been hearing much about being green lately and it made you think that perhaps it is time to change some of the ways you have been doing things. So you go out and buy a few CFLs to swap them for the old-fashioned incandescent bulbs, you started recycling and conserving water and energy, cutting your showers short and washing laundry in the cold water, just to name a few… Maybe you even stopped using plastic bags in the grocery stores (or anywhere else for that matter) and instead bought the reusable ones… Perhaps you started car pulling or even went as far as getting a hybrid… (wouldn’t that be something!).
There are probably plenty of little sacrifices you try to make every day for the sake of the environment… And then one day you notice one of your neighbors throwing away a few cardboard boxes into the regular trash bin even though the recycle trash bins are only a few feet away. And you think to yourself: “How inconsiderate!”. But you feel foolish enough not to mention anything. Then when you look around, you start noticing that many of the houses in the neighborhood have the outdoor lights on even though it’s a bright day! And to make things even worse, many of your neighbors have their sprinklers on even though it rained the day before! So you shake your head and keep going with your day, thinking it would be quite rude if you said something to them…
And in the meantime, there are more and more droughts around the world; the hurricanes are getting stronger each year causing massive destructions; the glacier are melting rapidly leading to lack of fresh water in the surrounding areas and slow extinction of some of the species of animals; the greenhouse gasses continue to rise adding to the warming of the earth’s climate and we are running out of time…
But you’re still not sure whether you should mention to your neighbors not to waste so much water, turn the lights off during the day and throw the recyclable thrash into the proper bins… Doesn’t it make you mad though? Such inconsideration and many a times simple laziness. So, at the risk of being rude, don’t hesitate to make a difference. Even if someone should shut the door in your face… The next person may listen and follow suit…
Wow… you came strong on this one…. I agree… you need to tell people … even if you don’t want to confront them face to face, you could leave a small note with the URL of this website on their door, and they’ll maybe be interested enough to check it out and learn for themselves… but the face to face approach does work much better