In this new world of instant social media communications, scrutinizing our planet and our own different national beliefs and interests, all the way down to personal and local community interests within our own local communities, it seems to me that we have exposed the biggest elephant in the room of all.
Of all the species ever introduced to this wonderful world we inhabit, it is humanity that continues to display, without shame, the most destructive and most totally self-centered behaviour of all.
It isn’t just increasingly corrupt bureaucrats and politicians with their failed promises, or even corporate industries and sports and entertainment ‘celebrities’ encouraged to amass billions whilst producing not a single genuine benefit for the increasing number of duped customers and fans who spend their cash on mere pie in the sky platitudes.
If we cannot even accept our own personal failings on a daily basis, we have little chance.
I walk my best friend, Juma, every morning, along our local trail. He chases his stick and I love the peace and solitude, and cannot ever understand just how I deserve to be so fortunate.
A couple of days ago on our walk I came across the item pictured above, something I had never seen before in over 20 years of puppy walking the same neighbourhood.
We do have a pretty good garbage system in Wainfleet, it’s reliable and it serves our community well. So I have a hard time believing that any local resident may have thought this was a good and environmentally acceptable idea
Who decided to fill three garbage bags, drive out from wherever to the Gord Harry Trail on Golf Course Road in Wainfleet, then carry those three bags full of garbage some three or four hundred yards from Golf Course Road and dump them in a hedge?
After over 20 years of walking this same rural neighbourhood with my puppies I can only celebrate just how fortunate I feel for the opportunity I have enjoyed. But how any responsible citizen—urban or rural—can believe it’s okay just to dump their garbage as they walk their neighbourhood, or open their car window and throw half empty food and drinks containers into a ditch wherever they happen to be, begs the question: Just how many of our human ‘environmentalists’ are really concerned about climate change in a world where polluting our cities, towns, rural and agricultural areas with casually discarded trash continues to get worse?
And I just love how ‘responsible’ dog owners bring their pets out to the country for their walk, take the trouble to pick up their puppy’s poop in their little plastic baggies then simply hang them on a branch or just drop them in the grass verge! Obviously, in their world there are trash fairies whose only job is to clean up after them.
A few years ago, a local newspaper ran a story about how far too much plastic trash was being dumped in rural ditches and hedgerows. When I walked my two puppies that morning, I returned home able to submit a letter to that same newspaper stating that I had counted over seventy plastic bags containing the same newspaper in the ditches on my walk! Needless to say, my letter was never published.
But please spare me the ongoing claims from many environmentalist activists that they can really make a change when there is growing evidence that we can’t even control the daily trash casually dumped by so many folks in all our cities, towns and rural areas, just going about their daily business.
