On Sundays we used to rest. Nap. Potter around. Remember? Spend time with family. Because nothing was open. Perhaps the reason for this has changed, as beliefs change, but the effect was kind to the planet. And us. It gave the planet one day to breathe. And us a chance to relax.
As you may have heard, 97% of peer-reviewed scientists who studied climate change "endorsed the consensus that humans are causing global warming."
This is a problem for us on Earth, but not so much for the sun.
The sun can look after itself. We need to protect the earth. For this reason I propose we change the name of Sunday to Earthday, and on this day
- close shops and businesses
- limit non essential travel
- pedestrianise suitable roads
- encourage cycling, skating and other non fossil-fuel burning activities
- encourage local protests, demonstrations, talks in aid of the earth
- encourage meetings in local parks or halls for music, storytelling, poetry
- discourage non-renewable energy use
- plant trees locally
- celebrate our planet
Knowing our current situation is unsustainable, we should and eventually must change our ways as a tribe, country, people, species. It's that simple.
Better late than never. But what if late is too late? Imagine the good it could do.
Add your support to this cause by signing the petition. This petition is to the People Of The World. This means you. Because we don't need to ask anyone's permission to rename Sunday Earthday. New words are added to the dictionary every year. Because language changes. So we can just start doing it.
