Come on guys why the f@ck are we so messy? Don't you care about the environment around you? No I don't mean 'The Enviroment' - the global ecosphere and all the issues aroung CO2 and what not. No, I mean your environment - that small space on the planet that provides parking for your arse?

Don't you want so see nice clean surroundings? Wouldn't you feel more like being in a place where you could see the ever decreasing places of nature around? I don't want to lecture but it really doesn't take much effort.

Don't just put your rubbish in the bin, also pick up one small piece of somebody elses litter and put it in the bin each day. "WHAT!!" - I here you say? "Pick up someone ELSES rubbish?"  Well yes - thats what I say.

You might think its just kids and the lower classes who drop litter  - think again. Based on the Broken Windows Theory - if you create small amount of disorder then things deteriate rapidly. If you create a small amount of order then people will gravitate around it and make an effort to preserve. I think it has a resonance with one of the most fundemental laws of physics The 3rd law of thermodynamics. Put simply this means that the tendency to the state of chaos is the natural state of being, unless effort is put in to maintain current state.

If you (and I) pick up just one piece of litter, say once a day or so. Then you applying the effort to stop chaos from encroaching. As the environment becomes cleaner - more people put in an effort to preserve it. Just look at the local paper when developers what to buldoze a park or green land.

Here's an example I saw today. A workman was relaying a pavement tile. He brushed the sand in all around, then took out a dustpan and brush and swept the excess sand up.

Every little bit helps - it really does.

If you pick up just one piece of rubbish your making a massive cha

# posted by preet sangha @ 8:56 PM 0 comments