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.