ORIGINALLY WRITTEN
Next Monday marks “Earth Day” across the country. We’re encouraged on that day to consider what kind of stewards we are of the earth, water, sky and air that sustain us.
Earth Day grew out of the environmental movement of the 1970s, a groundswell associated by some even to this day with a radical fringe of society that placed the value of the natural world above common sense in providing for the practical needs of common persons.
In response to the radical extremes, some folks have discounted legitimate concern for the environment as one more “wacko” cause. It is not. Common sense demands that we care for the irreplaceable resources that are the basic nutrients of life.
“Environmentalism” may not suit us. But stewardship is the obligation none of us can skirt. -DR
