PUTNEY — After just walking a very short stretch of road on this Earth Day and nearly filling a 39-gallon trash bag with mostly alcohol containers, I would like to see people who drink and drive and who trash our roadsides sentenced to community service, cleaning up miles of roadway of all this trash.
Then I would like to see them made to haul all the bags somewhere where they can stand over a barrel of water and clean all of those containers and recycle them properly.
And I would love to hear back from someone who doesn't think twice about throwing trash out of their car window, or leaving trash along stream banks or in Vermont's beautiful woods, as to why you enjoy seeing the landscape filled with litter. Please educate us and help us to understand your psychosis.
I'm not at all worried about carbon dioxide. I believe that the climate is forever changing and that, as historical records clearly show, coastlines come and go. We do, after all, live on a very dynamic planet.
What I'm worried about is all the pollution we can see and smell and taste, like the day's worth of benzene that billowed over the Houston area recently.
And I'm worried that we're all going to be swimming in our own refuse in just a few short years.