Ask Questions
In TIME magazine's Heroes of the Environment, Cameron Diaz was praised for taking a stand for the environment. Why? For asking questions. Sounds simple but if you think about it, we spend so much of our time looking for answers that we forget about the power of questions.
As TIME rightly points out, it's easy for celebrities to put on an earnest face and tell us average folks to start driving hybrid cars and investing in solar panels because, unlike the average person, they don't gasp at the cost of a hybrid car or a row of solar panels. But unlike the average celebrity, Diaz isn't telling us what to do. Instead, she's asking questions and asking you to start asking questions, as well. Traveling across America she's posing the questions, "where does your water come from? How about the air you breathe and the food you eat?"
Before we go looking for all the answers, let's ask some questions first. Ask your leader what they'll do to ensure a successful outcome at Copenhagen.
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It's easy to throw pennies over our environmental wall. Take action and stand for something because actions speak louder than words; small donations are nice, but getting your hands dirty to improve our environmental conditions is better.
Posted by: Thayne Ford | October 8, 2009 12:18 AM
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Posted by: Anne-Marije Rook | October 8, 2009 9:31 AM
After 8 long dark years of denial, duplicity and death-dealing, it is surely a breath of fresh air that President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Finally, leadership with vision and hope has been restored to a lost world. Perhaps now we can be encouraged by this great man so that others will exemplify his kind of new leadership; so that, as the Nobel Prize Committee stated to and for all in the world, more leaders will stand up, speak out loudly and clearly for “diplomacy…founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.” If ever there was reason to hope for a good enough future for the children, it is now. The vision of what is best for the majority of humanity and not for a malignantly narcissistic, pathologically arrogant and extremely greedy minority, is something easy to apprehend and even easier to actualize in democracies in which the majority does really rule. The majority of people in too many democracies in our time have been surreptitiously manipulated by a remarkably tiny group of super-rich and powerful people who appear to have maniacally exploited democratic principles and practices for their own selfish interests…..come what may for the majority of humanity, the future of children, life as we know it and the integrity of Earth.
Posted by: Steven Earl Salmony | October 9, 2009 3:31 PM
mudei, do sul para o norte, em 2001, tenho uma humilde pousada hotel, herança perdida no interior do AMAZONAS, conheci pessoas que nunca sentaram num vaso sanitário, nem conhecem o chuveiro, apoio qualquer moviment de protecion ambiental, wagner.
Posted by: WAGNER CEZAR | October 10, 2009 6:23 AM