After reading about the waning interest in Earth Day, it occurs to me that there’s money to be made by making an Earth Day reality show.

Instead of having people win money by grossing us out and doing stupid things, this show could deliver money to communities and organizations that improve the earth. They would have to be clever, entertaining ideas.

When reading about SARS in that Easter paper it occurs to me that SARS is probably of our own making. We pollute the air and water and expect green things to eat this tainted food and still give us the same pure, fresh air as always.

Unfair.

Maybe trees are fighting back. What goes around, comes around.

Maybe “the meek shall inherit the earth” is not about people, but about trees, animals, whales and others whose voices we can’t or choose not to hear.

We know, and the Navy has admitted, that its sonar causes cerebral hemorrhages in whales. Yet whenever there’s another whale beaching we don our hero suits and try to get these misguided mammals back to open ocean. The whales are staging massive protests and we don’t get it.

So, this Earth Day reality show could be both people and animation. People being their drone-like selves while animated trees, mammals and air-born viruses tell what they’re thinking about our actions. Entertaining and beneficial to all.

What a concept!

Marni Lawson, Temple