Hope and the Environment

Do you feel that there’s nothing you can do, personally, to make a difference to the environmental problems the world faces? With all that’s happening off the coast of Louisiana just now it’s probably easier than ever to feel that way. In this post from Lou Tice at the Winners Circle, he encourages us to think differently.

Hope and the Environment

Do you listen to people who say we have polluted our environment past the point of hope? It is easy to do, with all that has happened in the past few weeks. However, I don’t, and I’ll tell you why.

There are some doom and gloom environmentalists and others out there, who, for their own misguided reasons, would rob the rest of us of hope. I believe that a hopeless attitude is just as dangerous as anything we could do to pollute the environment. Hopelessness is like a lethal nerve gas – it prevents us from seeing the kind of world we want for our children and grandchildren, and then doing what we need to do to create it.

Hopelessness will kill the dream of a healthy planet quicker than all the holes in the ozone layer and all the chemicals released into the atmosphere put together. To hope is not foolish. If you look for reasons to despair, you will find them. But if you choose, instead, to look for reasons to hope, you will find them also.

Why not collect hopeful signs, like some folks collect stamps, coins or baseball cards? Then, when you hear people saying that it doesn’t matter what we do, because it is too late to save the environment, tell them they are wrong. Prove it with examples from your collection.

Yes, there is work to be done and we will find the tools to use. Each of us can make a difference – you can make a difference!

Lou Tice
The Pacific Institute

I really do agree with Lou Tice on this, and believe there is still hope for the environment. And I believe each of us can still make a difference. It might only be a very small difference, but multiplied by millions it can grow into something worthwhile. Look around your locality, keep looking for reasons to hope, you will find them.

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