I’m sure if we work hard enough, we can keep winter from coming until February next year, and eventually from happening at all!

Of course I’m kidding. As nice as the mild weather was while it lasted, it definitely got me thinking a little bit more about the adverse impact we humans are having on the environment.

More accurately, it got me thinking about my own contribution to the war on nature. Because as displeased as I am with the big problems like the loss of our world’s rain forests, the continued despoilment of our oceans, etc., at the end of the day, the only control I really have is over my own actions.

Which raises that ages-old question: what difference can one person possibly make?

Realistically, it’s not so much a question as it is an excuse. If the rest of you are remotely like me, the only time you’ve rhetorically asked yourself "why bother" in an environmental context is when you’re about to do something bad for the environment.

Why should I buy a green-energy car when everyone else is just going to buy gas-guzzling SUVs? Why should I bother recycling when nobody else does? Why do what’s right when the rest of the world is just going to screw it all up for me anyway?

The answer to that question differs for all of us (I do it for the babes) and isn’t really my concern. Why you do it doesn’t matter, but that you do it certainly does. [an error occurred while processing this directive]