Reality Check

Yesterday when I arrived home I went straight to the Rock Creek Park Horse Center where I own a horse and teach lessons. I was talking to a friend about the SC3 conference, and said jokingly "You'll thank me in 50 years when global warming ends!" All of a sudden, from the other side of the barn, I hear a voice saying "Global warming doesn't exist!" I laughed, at first thinking this was a joke. But when I looked over to see a woman and her boyfriend visiting the barn with totally straight faces, I realized it was not, in fact, a joke. I ignored her, not wanting to get in a fight with a visitor to the barn that I work at, but it really made me think. I think all of us returning from the conference in West Virginia are in for a wake-up call: we are all going to encounter so many doubtful, uneducated, or just stubborn people. THEY ARE OUR PRIME AUDIENCE! While it's great to surround yourself with people who are passionate about the environment and think like you, it's the non-believers that we must direct our energy to. The more people we change, the more followers we have. A quote from one of the videos my group created this week, "We will change lightbulbs, we will change minds, we will change the world"