Toronto Reference Library Blog

It’s all a matter of personal responsibility – an individual can make choices and speak out about the detriment to our surroundings we are all making. From throwing cigarette butts onto treed or planted areas (instead of butting out on sidewalks) to using plastic bags for grocery purchases (instead of carrying reusable sacs) everyone has something they could cut back on. But … we are not. We are rushing headlong into destruction. We are so far removed from respect for our environment (that which surrounds us everywhere, not just up north or in the tropics) but the beleaguered city tree whose branches are ripped off, the manicured parkettes devoid of any milkweed, that we do not see our own demise coming. We laugh about in movies about “The End”, but won’t stop the destruction. We’re so busy emigrating from countries in strife and denuded of indigenous plants, and trying to ‘build’ the economy through false hope of a good life, that we are blinded to the ecology we are losing.

It’s all a matter of personal responsibility – an individual can make choices and speak out about the detriment to our surroundings we are all making. From throwing cigarette butts onto treed or planted areas (instead of butting out on sidewalks) to using plastic bags for grocery purchases (instead of carrying reusable sacs) everyone has something they could cut back on. But … we are not. We are rushing headlong into destruction. We are so far removed from respect for our environment (that which surrounds us everywhere, not just up north or in the tropics) but the beleaguered city tree whose branches are ripped off, the manicured parkettes devoid of any milkweed, that we do not see our own demise coming. We laugh about in movies about “The End”, but won’t stop the destruction. We’re so busy emigrating from countries in strife and denuded of indigenous plants, and trying to ‘build’ the economy through false hope of a good life, that we are blinded to the ecology we are losing.