Enough With the Fireworks Already
"… This is one case in which doing the right thing requires no significant sacrifice, one case in which doing the right thing has an immediate, noticeable, undeniably positive effect on a suffering world.
The conflation of selfishness with patriotism is the thing I have the hardest time accepting about our political era. Maybe we have the right to eat a hamburger or drive the biggest truck on the market or fire off bottle rockets deep into the night on the Fourth of July, but it doesn't make us good Americans to do such things. How can it possibly be "American" to look at the damage that fireworks can cause — to the atmosphere, to forests, to wildlife, to our own beloved pets, to ourselves — and shrug?"
Margaret Renkl
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/opinion/july-4-fireworks-america.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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