The Green Thing
The clerk responded, 



But they didn't have the green thing back then.

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It is all a part of "guilt tripping" us little consumers into thinking that "little actions" are what really matters, instead of insitutionalised changes. Most of our modern life styles, compared to 3-4 generations ago, have negative impacts on the planet. Sure, along the way us little "consumer" environmentalists have reduced forest destruction, to a very small degree, we've saved a whale and a bird specie or 2, but overall, our net impact on this planet is completely negative. I've been canvas bagging all my adult life (30 yrs). My family (5 in all) used to compost at home ALL our leftovers, and we ate nearly all local produce, from the butcher (1 box for the year), the egg man (2 dozen returnable cartons per week, the milkman (3 glass bottles per day, returned next day). And our garden (in addition to neighbours) provided a large percentage of all produce required throughout the year, and many (1/4 ?) did the same. But the other 3/4 of my neighbours had already modernised into our throw-away culture.


Yes plastic bags (and all plastics residues) ought to be de-invented. They are a plague on this earth worst than any human disease ever was, for the number of lives they kill.


Many of our grandparents and parents were sold the "American throw-away Dream", and didn't really think twice about it. Modernity is good, it's the way to go... right? Now we make small actions, to alleviate our collective guilt, but are we ready to take the larger actions that need to happen in order to re-establish a sense of reason to our endless excesses?


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