What is happening with our air? Is there anything people can do for our environment? And if so, are there any activities that a single man can do? Does he really impact the whole environment, where billions of other influences factor in as well? For the last two months I have been dealing with these kinds of questions. I thought, if a man who was not able to beat George W. Bush in an election (faked or not), wins a Nobel price due to his huge attainments for the safety of the world, I should at least rescue the clean air in my hometown, where cows and birds are playing golf together and the fox beats the rabbit at playing chess. As you can see, first of all I wanted to consider one element and "air" was the only one that came into question. Why?
Fire: There is no reason to save fire. Just think back to California, where it has destroyed thousands of houses and injured hundreds of people.
Earth: Remember your childhood and how often you got dirty because of all the mud at the playground. And now that I am a father, do I really want to save all the mud on the clothes of my two sons? Of course not!
Water: My sister already wants to save this element, so I can't copy her - unfortunately. I like the idea of saving a small Flipper in our big ocean.
So there was just one element left, called air. In the beginning it sounds a bit boring in comparison to the other ones, but you have to remember, this is not a selfish competition. The one who has saved the most interesting element will not rule the world. And honestly, who wants to steal Stewie's dream of conquering the world?
This article is about doing something to avoid an environmental disaster like the ones we have seen in tons of Hollywood movies. And even if I think that they are a bit extreme in order to win the attention and afterwards the money of the spectators (But I am not really sure - this is just an assumption!), I think we have to start changing something concerning our habits as soon as possible.
So last month I began to search on the internet for what I have to do first in order to be the next Al Gore. So I typed in Google: "What do I have to do first, when I want to save the air?" This is pretty logical, isn't it? I came across a site called "Save the planet". But as I already mentioned, the whole planet is a bit too much for me because I am a guy from a town that has maybe 2.000 citizens and 20.000 cows. So I kept looking, but I changed the keyword a bit. This time I just typed in: "How can I filter the dirty air from our globe?" By doing this I came across a few sites that were about air filters. I thought that filtering the air with good air filters is probably a good way to start rescuing one of our four elements. So I bought twenty Air filters from a company called AFE. Just two days later I got my new air filters, but I was a bit surprised that something so small could filter air. But I tried it. Unfortunately, it did not work. When I was standing on the top of the highest house in my hometown (18 feet), a guy who was walking by told me why. He said "Hey dude, these filters only improve the engine performance of your vehicle; they don't filter the earth's air". As you can imagine, it was pretty embarrassing.
Afterwards I decided to quit my new career as the savior of the world. But now that I have 20 great air filters for my car, I am the king of the road. And if anyone will blame me for neglecting my dream to save the air that fast, I will answer: "At least I was thinking about finding a way to improve our threatened environment." Maybe I will also add "And dude, you have to remember, I have air filters!!"
