
Commitment
Consider this an invitation: to take responsibility for the pollution you generate.
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You can dramatically reduce the amount of chemical waste you put into our atmosphere.
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How to start?
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Go public.
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Send a short note to everyone you know of your new commitment (see Sample Letters).
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Include a personal-pollution estimate, and a guess about how much you'll continue to pollute.
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Cut your toxic pollution output (in half?) in the coming months.
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Provide updates to friends, acquaintances and family. Let them know of your travails, but that no
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matter what, you have given your word to do this. Despite whatever difficulties, you are going
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to diminish (by 2/3rds?) your dirty effluent - come hell or high water.
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Let your peers, co-workers and neighbors hold you accountable.
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And make sure to cc your communications to government, community, and corporate leaders.
Ask them, beg them, or demand of them that they join the boycott also. ​​​​
“In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet [together].
We all breathe the same air [and] we all cherish our children's futures.”
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John F. Kennedy - June 10, 1963 ​