The Presidential Inauguration Committee is hoping that the estimated 2 million people who come to see Barack Obama sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday will do like good hikers everywhere d leave Washington, D.C., as clean as they found it.
Thousands of people have volunteered to lend a hand in what is being touted as the “greenest inauguration in history,” and for many of them that will mean picking up trash, recyclables and even horse manure along the Mall in Washington after Obama takes the oath of office.
(C)ritics say the committee’s attempt to be environmentally friendly is nothing more than political posturing and basic good behavior.
Furthermore, they say, if Hollywood stars and bigwigs really cared about the environment, they’d choose not to come to Washington at all. Rather than generate tons of emissions in their private jets and gas-guzzling SUVs, they’d have a better chance of saving the Earth if they just stayed home.
