For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 19, 2023

Too bad the Enjos picked such a terrible place to go camping. I could have recommended a few places for them that are very clean and family friendly.

as one local volunteer noted, “it’s as if we keep picking up after the same litterers”. yup.

Somebody send for Captain Planet

In the words of Pogo Possum: “We have met the enemy and they are us.”

Who remembers this commercial (1970) of the “Crying Indian” in the “Keep America Beautiful” campaign? >

There’s that old saying(paraphrase of course)—there is always a few to spoil things for the vast majority ! ! ! ! !

Uhh… Is that a fish fossil among the garbage?

It’s very hard too educate Ignorant people.

Must be the half ton of garbage dumped by Arlo Guthrie.

“You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant.

You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant.

Walk right in, it’s a round the back.

Just a half a mile from the railroad track.

You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant."

My local park which is pretty big and it’s disgusting that people are too lazy to put their trash in the trash can.

People are no different than any other animal.

I live in a forest and you would not believe what I find when I’m walking thru the woods. Makes me sick. And I’m not even on the trails.

Amazing how, even when people are rare, humans pzz off other humans.

What gets me are the uncivilized people who literally throw their trash out the car window right here in “civilization.” Sometimes I wish I could throw it back in at them.

Where I live, we have adopt a highway program. People volunteer to clean up certain sections of a highway. Maybe it’s not perfect, but it does seem to be helping.

For sure. I live in the country, it’s amazing what people dump on our dead end road. Beer cans, candy wrappers, juice boxes, you name it.

Sad but true.

See. I was right yesterday when I thought the unnamed boy with the funny Moe the Three Stooges haircut was going to ask Liz out on a date. Taking the girl hiking is a date in my books.

All you need to screw something beautiful up is throw a few humans into the mix. They do it every time.

True, Elizabeth.

“…And at the bottom of a 10 foot cliff, there was another pile of garbage and rather than bring that one up, we decided to throw ours down” – Alice’s Restaurant

That’s litterally disgusting.

Amen! I love hiking so much but the people (and their bluetooth speakers, yelling, etc) threaten to ruin it every time.

They’re having more fun than the Foxtrot boys I just checked in on!

So they went hiking in a landfill.

Love the fossil.

my husband noticed that if you pick up the litter when you walk, it doesn’t get relittered as fast as it does when you don’t pick it up. We generally carry a bag just for that purpose

My mother used to throw things like used tissues, food wrappers, etc out the window in the car when I was very little. I yelled at her, she said it just, “blow away.” I asked her where “away” was, and she had no answer for me. She felt the same way about cigarette smoke. I asked her when I was in middle school about where she thought the smoke went, besides on the walls of our home. She said, “It just blows away.” I said, “You know this is a closed system, right? Are you trying to kill your grandchildren?” She really didn’t get it. Not in the least, and she didn’t care, either.

Some people learn to appreciate nature. Some don’t and remain ignorant.

“Man is in the forest!”

When my brothers and my son were in boy scouts, one of the first lessons they learned was to leave a campsite cleaner than when they arrived. Still to this day, my son will go out of his way to pick up trash that has been thrown on the ground (as will my husband).

And that amount of trash has doubled or tripled since this strip first ran. So many [expletive deleted]s who think the world is their trash can!

So, Elizabeth, you hate the idea that YOU exist in the world?

That’s OK. In a million years all trace of mankind will be gone and the earth will heal.

I was driving on the freeway a few years ago and the sub-humans in the car in front of me tossed out a few fast-food bags. I may have signaled their I.Q. when I passed them.