In the coming months, visitors from all over the country will descend on the Laurel Highlands and visit amusement parks, state parks and historical sites. They will travel routes 30, 22, 981 and 982, to name a few.
Among the sights they will see are our trashed highways littered with aluminum cans, plastic, paper, car parts, old tires and even full garbage bags. They will also see old ads for local politicians who fail to take down their ugly signs.
Warm weather is around the corner, and water will start accumulating in the trash and producing the possibility of a number of health risks, not to mention disease- carrying mosquitoes and the chance of polluting our streams. (I think we have enough to worry about with the coronavirus.)
I do not have the answers to this problem and apparently our political leaders do not have any solutions, either. I only say that sitting on the floor and making posters and complaining about climate change and environmental issues is not the answer. It may be better to have those individuals actually go out and make a difference in their own space in this world.
L. Kean
Derry