It’s time to ‘clean our room’
By Staff | Apr 28, 2021
To the editor:
“You can go out and play after you clean your room. You live here, remember?”
I can still hear my mother’s exasperated voice on Saturday mornings, my father growling in the background. Years would pass before I integrated that message — you are responsible.
When Earth Day was founded in 1970, 20 million Americans demonstrated in cities all over the country to draw attention to the growing needs of our environment. I was not one of them. In 1970, I was graduating from college, heading to basic training and partying hard. I bet I left many more beer cans and cigarette butts in my wake than I am able to pick up today.