RESOLUTIONS: Responsibility

This is the second in a series of articles in which I will be looking at environmental resolutions that you can make. Each week will feature a different theme. If you are feeling brave choose which of the themes appeals to you most and attempt to put it into practice for the year 2001. If you want less of a commitment, then simply put some, or even one, of the suggestions into practice thoughout the year. Don't worry if you occasionally break your resolution. The aim is not perfection but small differences over a long period of time.

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This week's theme is: Responsible

The trouble nowadays is that nobody is prepared to take any responsibility. It is always someone else's fault, someone else's problem. Meanwhile the very fabric of our existence crumbles away as the people who should be saving it sit around doing nothing.
Anon.

It is such a shame about the wild flowers slowly dying out, being replaced by garden flowers. They are part of our heritage. I am sure that part of the problem is intensive farming and all that weedkiller they use. Then, the cutting of the roadside verges has always been problematic. Who in their right minds cuts down flowers just before they have seeded? And nobody seems to leave a little bit of their gardens to nature any more, so wild flowers cannot even find a refuge in gardens now. I could always write/tell people this but....

Have you seen the awful way that the authorities sometimes prune street trees? I don't call it pruning at all. They simply hack off all the branches leaving stumps. Of course if they planted sensible sized trees on streets in the first place there wouldn't be such a problem. I guess I could tell them I'm not happy but...

Those fly-tippers have been back again. Dumping rubbish by the lorry load when they think no-one is watching. It's disgusting. Changing a beauty spot into a waste tip. Someone should do something about it. I know who they are and which firm they drive for. I should jolly well blow the whistle on them but...

Let me ask you something. If you don't do it, who will? If you haven't got time, who has? If you cannot get a Round Tuit then who can? (I can, just let me know and I will send you a Round Tuit by return of post. I have stacks of them for just such an occasion.)If you won't take responsibility, who will?

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