please empty your brain below
"We recycle our organic waste using the council-supplied green wheelie bin"
"You uncaring selfish whatevers, did you not know that your council causes more damage to the environment collecting the waste from green wheelie bins in the neighbourhood than it saves through recycling it?"
Lots of hot carbon dioxide rich air spent on this. Plant the green stick and let us grow trees. Save the oceans - the key resource for absorption of green house gases.
You selfish uncaring bastrds indeed.
And yes, that means there will be people who don't ever leave this country on a plane... but such is the price we pay. It's not like we haven't been warned about it for.. what.. 20 years??
What I cannot understand however, is that on a Monday when they collect our bins, they come round early to get one bin (it's always 2 everyweek, as we have 3 in total). Then a number of hours later, they return to collect the other.
Surely their doing two trips and polluting with their enormous diesel dust cart cancels out the good we do by recycling? And before anyone says it, yes they do have double ones, they spent way too much money on them, but don't seem to use them!
And now I've written this comment. Crap, I'm such an selfish uncaring bastard...
- Which is probably greener than the old one, unless you've just invested in a chelsea tractor.
"We're buying a new fridge."
- Which definately will be more efficient than the old generation of fridges. Replace one thats 20 years old and it will save money, same with boilers. That said, our 20 year old boiler is dead reliable and hasn't broken down since a major service in about 1995. Gone through about three pumps since then.
And you know the thing that really gets my goat? It's the 'is it ethical' column in the Guardian. You know the one that asks middle-class questions like "Is it okay to use an electronic toothbrush?!"
Argh
I like to think I'm environmental, but I'm not obsessively so, and certainly not beyond booking a Ryanair jaunt to Finland just for kicks.
That said, I think we all should look at ways in which we can be more environmentally conscious (one could say 'responsible') which will also benefit us as consumers.
Consumers are selfish, consumers want what is good for them, and rewards them. There are environmentally-friendly products / services which do this, but a constant Big Green Stick approach is simply off-putting.
I find it interesting, overall, how environmental issues are a massive news agenda at the moment, and the media continue to give coverage to ethno-eco-warriors which both gives their viewpoint yet takes the piss out of them for being too hardline. Who's doing their PR?
Actually I think I may have devised an algorithm to work this out. If you wish to discuss this further please contact me off list.
Nurse, where are my pills? Nurse, why are you locking the door..... Nurse, NURSE......
As an ethical woman, I now feel responsible for your condition. I'll be round on visiting day.
Still - i do feel i have to try and make up for it.
Recycling's bollocks - just buy less shite!
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