Letter: Let's Treat the Earth Well—We Don't Have Another

“We treat this world of ours as though we had a spare in the trunk.”

This quotation came out of a fortune cookie I ate at a Moorestown restaurant this past Sunday, hours before New Jersey began to feel the monstrous impact of Tropical Storm Sandy.   

I read it silently, then read it out loud to my husband, as we both wondered: What would tomorrow be like? And how about the tomorrows beyond tomorrow? We thought of the death toll, the suffering, the days without power, the hours of anguish that would follow the destruction of private property, the damage to the economy ...

We asked ourselves: What will it take for our nation to realize we must treat the Earth kindly, for indeed we don’t have a spare?  

We, as a people, must do whatever we can to reverse the damage we’ve done, and we must insist that government at all levels initiate and implement Earth-friendly policies.  

To deny that global warning and climate change are scientific realities is to court disaster. Sandy settled that argument. 

Monique Begg
Moorestown