Last Sane Man Standing - Blog of Corey Deitz

"Become Homeless for Earth Day"

April 16, 2008

We all have an agenda.

Whatever is important to you takes preference in your life. You work toward being surrounded by that thing or being able to do that thing. Your actions, whether conscious or unconscious, become your agenda.

And there's nothing wrong with that. You're entitled to "...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" - which in today's terms is - an agenda.

The problem is: agendas are fragile. Your agenda may collide with mine. What you deem important I may consider trivial.

For instance: on my radio show this morning, we were talking briefly about the homeless problem and it suddenly occurred to me that one portion of the population wants to lessen how many homeless people there are yet it is these exact wayward souls who must certainly be in demand by the environmentalists because they have the smallest carbon footprint of all!

No homes to use up precious electrical power, no incandescent light bulbs sockets to yearn for compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), no cars to burn toxic-laden fuels, no fireplaces burning wood, no pleasure boats to drip motor oil on lakes, no nothing!

Well, maybe a shopping cart full of stuff.

But, even then: they're recycling everything in that cart because they found it or stole it and without these their actions all the junk in that cart would be taking up precious space in some landfill - and we all know landfills are bad. I mean the idea of "filling" the land with anything that isn't actual "land" borders on the kind of environmental sacrilege usually left to people who club baby seals, don't save the whales, and coat baby ducks in oil slicks when their tankers run ashore.

The homeless are the greenest people on earth - practically carbon neutral - and we want to decrease the amount of them? Why, I thought the point of the environmentalists was to get all of us to use less and have less.

Who better than the homeless to guide us toward that end. After all, they took up that goal long ago by deciding not to contribute to society in any productive way what so ever and by design or chance, planted the smallest carbon footprint of all. You might say the homeless care for society the most, right?

After all, they ask so little - and they take even less.

This year for Earth Day if you really want to help Mother Earth, become homeless. It's the ultimate green and selfless act you can do.