Don't throw your cigarettes out the window!!!

There must come a point in time when people, young and old alike, will start to take care of their surroundings.

When they will stop littering and look for a trashcan.
When they will stop spilling their oil into the ocean.
When they will do everything that they can to convince lawmakers to approve of and enforce clean energy laws.
When they will realize that we don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, but borrow it from our children (old Indian proverb).

We are the only ones who can take care of this land. Stewardship must be on our minds at all times - simply because our happiness and well-being depends on the happiness and well-being of the earth!

So, tonight, I address myself to the young brunette driving the Silver Toyota Corolla S, with the Laguna Beach parking sticker in the left corner of her tinted back window, CA license plate 5RFA827, who threw her burning cigarette out of her window while driving north on Laguna Canyon road right after turning around Big Bend, just one week after the big Fire Alerts in the canyon.

Miss, I do acknowledge that using the ashtray in your car might stink your car up a bit. It might mean having to clean out the ashtray once you're back home. Or getting on some kind of smoking schedule where you don't smoke in the car but before/after your trips. But chucking your well-lit cigarette out the window in the canyon isn't worth it - you're putting an entire community of people, plants and animals at risk of death, destruction, and long-lived negative consequences. And frankly, that's a situation that I don't appreciate being put in.

Which is why I tried my best to extinguish your cigarette under my car's two left tires, why I wrote down your license plate, and why I am writing this post tonight.

Let us truly answer the call of responsibility - think before acting - and protect to our best ability the natural resources that we are so blessed to have.