The terrible Chernobyl disaster that occurred in April 1986, in Ukraine, released massive amounts of radiation into the environment. The country, after more than two decades since gaining its independence from the Soviet Union, was beginning to recover; but Putin’s rampage over the past two months is poisoning the area all over again. The environmental crimes he continues to inflict are unfathomable.
While it was the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, California that spawned the first Earth Day, human caused disasters continue to plague our planet. The little everyday things that are mindlessly piled onto our planet’s plate, add up on their own; but the disasters heap almost insurmountable problems onto its already overburdened shoulders.
Today is Earth Day and billions of people will be raising their voices in an effort to awaken others, to the peril that we are on the verge of facing. We see the sickening destruction on the news. The horror, for us, is far away and may even seem surreal; but it could become our reality as well, if Putin is not stopped.
Ironically, a huge graveyard has been discovered in North Dakota containing the fossils from the dinosaur extinction, which is believed to have been caused by an asteroid striking the earth about 66 million years ago. If we do not make haste to create peace worldwide and if we do not make the health of our planet’s environment the most important thing, we too, will one day be mere fossils lying buried in the earth.
