Day 5 of Blogging from A to Z. Today’s
letter is E
E
is for Errant Environmental Ecocide
if
not this day then
when
will we accept that we
court
a silent spring.
I
won’t belabor the point. The haiku says it all.
We know the bees are dying; we know that they are essential to our food
production. Even those folks who profess to care, spray their lawns, trees, and
even themselves with poisons and wonder that they and their gardens do not thrive as they
once did.
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Glossary:
errant - adjective \ˈer-ənt, ˈe-rənt\
behaving wrongly, going outside the proper area
eco·cide noun \ˈē-kə-ˌsīd, ˈe-, -(ˌ)kō-\
the destruction of large areas of the natural environment
especially as a result of deliberate human action
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