Adieu 2006! Welcome 2007! We’ve got a full year ahead of us. I’m wondering if I’ll still be up to my neck in the same rotten mess or maybe plow through a new heap of decomposing dregs discarded by humanity. Whew! What’s with the gloomy outlook? For one, we still got a number of fingers blown off in welcoming the New Year. Good news was there were a lesser number of cases compared to last year, bad news was most of them were kids.
Good news is we are going to have a chance to ditch our environmentally-handicapped leaders this coming May election. Bad news is who we are going to replace them with? If we review the performance of our leaders for the past six years, most of them will have a red tick beside the line that says “environmental responsibility.” For most of them, the environmental flag is something you wave when people line up to drop their ballots. It’s no surprise that being “environmental” has become the in thing to do with political wannabes in the past year.
Most of them conveniently disregard the reality that caring for nature and the environment is not a one shot affair. It requires long term commitment and years of hard work. They overlook the fact that the fruits of our present efforts will be harvested by future generations, not the present crop of voters. So what is it this time? Out with the old worms and in with the new ones?
I have resolved that we have to turn a new leaf for 2007, so to speak. I will definitely exercise my power for a more environment-friendly future in politics. That is, if they’ll allow me to vote since I was not able to beat the deadline for registration. Well, new leaf or not, a worm’s always a worm…
Вот это да!
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