Google has gone BLACK!

I turned on my screen, came back and thought a virus had taken over my screen. Google, made it's homepage black in what it calls a "gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour." Now that really forces you to think about conservation. That is clever! With the price of gas, I didn't need that reminder, because my wallet automatically goes into the default conservation mode.

However, while we are on the subject of conservation: Yesterday, I was just thinking about how wasteful we are, and when I throw my trash away, how many more landfills will he have? Will future generations have to live side by side with trash? Hospitals waste so much plastic, and one employee can use an entire box of gloves or two during one shift. It's nice when we can go and use the toilet, press that magic handle and flush everything away. What if we no longer have that luxury? I see urban cities littered with trash. Where are the "keep it clean" campaigns?

Then I think about how people fight and quarrel over land, as if we created this land with our own hands. We don't OWN anything, everything is on loan to us. Look at that hugh glacier/iceberg that broke off this week, I wonder how many people had a discussion about this and the future implications of this happening? We really need to be kind to earth, before earth becomes angry with us and will return the favor, and not be so kind to us.

No one likes to recycle, because "it's too inconvenient" or "I don't have time to...," or only "certain people" recycle, but one day we will wish we had.