During these hot summer days, some question the frequency of air conditioner usage. They think air conditioners are harmful to the environment. Well, so is smoke. So is the exhaust from vehicles. I just heard that farting isn’t good for the environment, either. What’ll it be next, belching?
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Thanks to GirlieOnTheEdge for inspiring the above with her six-sentence prompt for this week in which the given word is “frequency,” and the idea is to write something in at least six sentences, using the word at least once. You can click here to participate on your blog and read other six-sentence contributions.
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Sixteen-year-old Natalie’s grandmother, suffering from dementia and confined to a wheelchair, lives in a nursing home and rarely recognizes Natalie. But one Halloween night, she tells her a shocking secret that only she and Natalie’s mother know. Natalie is the product of a one-night stand between her mother, who is a college English teacher, and another professor.
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Natalie realizes she has some growing up to do. Scared and confused, she reaches out to her biological father, and they start corresponding.
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My Corner 
This is funny. Iâve heard that Cows farts and belches arenât good for the environment. Our society does use too much electricity which is draining our resources. Fans use just as much power and people need to keep from passing out during heat waves Itâs a Catch 22.
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While some of that may be to the extreme, there are things which endanger the environment and the proof is all around us.
Taking care of the earth air and water is no different than taking care of the home you live in. The earth air and water, plant and animal life sustain us so why would we not take care of it?
Itâs quite selfish to do otherwise.
There are a lot of things we could do to reduce this problem. But too many people have me, me syndrome.
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That’s another way of looking at it, Patty. Thanks for your comment.
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I agree, Trish. You’re darned if you do and darned if you don’t. Thank you for commenting.
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Very good points.
It’s just hard to reduce the footprint we’re leaving. There are things we can do to minimize it but in the end, time takes the world.
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Farting does smell up the local environment.
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No doubt it does. But that’s just one of those things that can’t be helped, though I try not to do it in public.
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We are in a bind. Wiser heads than mine need to help us come up with a plan to use resources wisely, but even if they do, how will we put into the people the willpower to implement it?
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We wonât as long as people do not realize the seriousness and as long as they are selfish and only think of the now.
Iâd personally like my grandchildren to have a clean drink of water, climates that are tolerable for crops, and human as well as animalâs life, and all their children to come.
So, I recycle when possible, I try not to run my air full-blast all the time, I donât leave water running unnecessarily even though I pay no water bill here where I am. I donât leave devices running when Iâm not using them and when I leave the house I turn the air up so it wonât be coming on every five minutes while there is no one here to be hot.
See how easy it is? Yes easy, but God forbid anyone should be the least bit inconvenienced.
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Patty, I’m glad you’re doing your part, and I’m doing all I can. Thank you for commenting.
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I think many of us are. But more must get on board.
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I hoped not to spark a discussion of this nature. Maybe I should have found a different use for the word “frequency.” At the time, I thought it would be fun to entertain everyone with a humorous look at the situation.
But now that Pandora’s box has been opened, let me just say this. There are ways to clean up the environment and stop global warming. But as long as corporations aren’t willing to do their part and most politicians don’t care, there isn’t a lot the rest of us can do. It’s better to just accept it. Things are what they are, and life will go on, one way or another. If anyone feels differently, let’s all agree to disagree.
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