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Love the Earth—unselfishly
Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column.
It was just a chewing gum wrapper. But after I mindlessly tossed it into beautiful Lake Minnetonka when I was on a boat ride with friends, I felt a twinge of guilt: “What if everyone threw their gum wrappers into the lake?”
That experience from my teenage years comes back to me when I think of the UN Climate Change Conference currently taking place. Governments are discussing how the world’s inhabitants can work individually and together to address the urgent need to reverse how human actions have increasingly changed the Earth and its atmosphere, seemingly with destructive results: more hurricanes, spreading wildfires, excessive flooding, and so on.
But what can one person do?
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