Oct 15 2009
Breaking Bad Habits–Blog Action Day
Social change. Mass Collaboration. Teamwork. That is what today was all about.
According to Blog Action Day’s website,
…the purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a discussion. We ask bloggers to take a single day out of their schedule and focus it on an important issue.
By doing so on the same day, the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue.
Out of this discussion naturally flow ideas, advice, plans, and action. In 2007 on the theme of the Environment, we saw bloggers running environmental experiments, detailing innovative ideas on creating sustainable practices, and focusing their audience’s attention on organizations and companies promoting green agendas. In 2008 we covered the theme of Poverty, and similarly focused the blogging community’s energies around discussing the wide breadth of the issue from many perspectives and identifying innovative and unexpected solutions. This year we aim to do the same for Climate Change, an issue that threatens us all.
Cigarette butts is my topic for today. I know, I know. It seems a bit bizarre when talking about climate change. But, I guess I’m really talking about caring for the only planet we inhabit: Mother Earth. So, what does a cigarette butt have to do with the planet you ask? Everything, in my opinion. As my friends and family know, I think smoking is a very bad, disgusting habit. Apart from the millions of smokers in the world, blowing toxins into the already much polluted air, I then often see these same people tossing their cigarette butts thoughtlessly onto the ground.
A cigarette butt seems like such a small, insignificant piece of trash, but this is the problem. I can’t even imagine if we collected all these butts and put them in a pile, how large that pile might be! A butt here, a candy wrapper there…they may be small, but they still contribute mighty damage to our planet. An article from bigmelt.com suggests some interesting points such as:
The energy used by highway cleanup crews creates even more emissions, polluting the air and aggravating the global warming problem.
Litter can pose great danger to wildlife as well as water and soil.
So, think before you toss. Let’s clean up our act starting today. It’s never too late to break some bad habits.
Wow Miss B!
That’s a really good topic! That topic is really interesting, I wanted to read more! I also wrote about that topic ‘ Climate Change’ but I didn’t write about cigarette butt. You can look at my post too at http://blogs.isb.ac.th/saraht/