Earth Day has come around again, and that’s a good thing.
Earth Day Flag (Wikipedia)
Look to Wikipedia and National Geographic for background information. Earth Day was first observed by United Nations Proclamation on March 21, 1970, and again as an environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970, founded by U. S. Senator Gaylord Nelson. The April 22 date was rallied around and is observed internationally.
Our friends Mark Foster and Deb Tout in Alpine, Texas, have helped to organize a thriving farmers market in Alpine and assisted with a city wide celebration of Earth Day on Saturday. Deb is an administrator at Sul Ross State University in Alpine and Mark is an organic farming guru and promoter. He produces commercial quantities of organic vegetables, condiments and eggs on less than 1 acre of rocky Chihuahuan Desert soil just south of Alpine. It is relatively cold in the winter, blistering in summer, zero per-cent humidity, and an average annual rainfall of only 10 inches. Gardening there is like gardening on Mars compared to the garden spot of western North Carolina. He writes a weekly newsletter and a column in the Big Bend Gazette monthly newspaper. He manages the Red Wagon Farm newsgroup on Yahoo, and waters veggies all night.
Deb, T, and Mark at the Historic Murphy Street Saturday Market in Alpine, Texas on April 12
Will Earth Day have many happy returns?
I’m not worried about the Earth that we love. The Earth, and Love, will endure. But will we? Look to your children and grand-children and so on.
The existentialist question would be: if Earth Day was founded by decree of the humans, and humans are extinct, then is it still Earth Day?
And, by extension, if humans no longer exist, could it even be an existentialist question - or even a question at all?
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