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Safeguard and Improve Your Environment - The Way to Happiness
October 15, 2007 — ppedersenSafeguard and Improve Your Environment - The Way to Happiness
We live in a world where not everyone cares to look beyond their daily woes at the scenery around them. Nor do many care about the world and its natural resources and its beautiful wonders. Thank god there are those few who do think about the environment and who do spend immeasurable energies to better it.
All of Man has a responsibility to safeguard and improve the environment in which they live. It is up to us to do our part in addition to encouraging others to do theirs too.
The Way to Happiness is a book by L. Ron Hubbard which delivers a set of basic morals for our modern world. You can greatly enhance others you associate with by having them apply these precepts. Precept # 12 is “Safeguard and Improve Your Environment.”
L. Ron Hubbard wrote in a section called “Help take care of the planet”:
“The idea that one has a share in the planet and that one can and should help care for it may seem very large and to some, quite beyond reality. But today what happens on the other side of the world, even so far away, can affect what happens in your own home. …
“Cut down too many forests, foul too many rivers and seas, mess up the atmosphere and we have had it. The surface temperature can go roasting hot, the rain can turn to sulfuric acid. All living things could die.
“One can ask, ‘Even if that were true, what could I do about it?’ Well, even if one were simply to frown when people do things to mess up the planet, one would be doing something about it. Even if one only had the opinion that it was just not a good thing to wreck the planet and mentioned that opinion, one would be doing something.
“Care of the planet begins in one’s own front yard. it extends through the area one travels to get to school or work. it covers such places as where one picnics or goes on vacation. The litter which messes up the terrain and water supply, the dead brush which invites fire, these are things one need not contribute to and which, in otherwise idle moments, one can do something about. Planting a tree may seem little enough but it is something. …
“There are many things people can do to help take care of the planet. They begin with the idea that one should. They progress by suggesting to others that they should.
“Man has reached the potential capacity to destroy the planet. He must be pushed on up to the capability and actions of saving it. It is, after all, what we’re standing on.
“If others do not help safeguard and improve the environment, the way to happiness could have no roadbed to travel on at all.”
This is quite true!
You can find out more about The Way to Happiness at http://www.twth.org.
October 15, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Nice video. I agree, we’re destroying our own homes, and the single most important thing that we should do is start changing that by taking care of our own front yard. We need to take some actions in our daily life if we want to keep our planet.
It’s nice to read mire posts related to Blog Action Day.
Have a nice day.
October 15, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Cool Post… Keep up the good work.. Gr8 Video.. Spread the word !!