There is something going on these days that scares me and makes me afraid of the world we are leaving for our children and their children's children. We are forever hearing from the man and many other sources to reduce our waste and recycle as much as possible. Yet the corporate assholes are like hey use this product it will make your life so much easier and then hey just throw it away! Throw it away??? Aren't we supposed to be reducing our waste? They are sending out very mixed messages here and its very sad. Toss out this product, flush this one down the toilet. Waste waste waste! Where does it go to our landfills and into the ocean. I'm sure shamu doesn't enjoy toilet scrubbers in with his grub. If it were up to me I would ban all disposible items that make our lives so much more convenient. Spend the extra hour that it takes and clean your house properly! Stop being so lazy and destroying the environment for the sake of convenience. Now that I have vented off a bit of steam on this issue I wish you all a good night Peace, love, harmony!
u know what? the more you listen to poeple around you, and adapt to the norm, the more we just fuck up the planet..... i know it sounds really weird, but this is what i have to say about saving the planet: it's about saying NO to the NORM! no to fashion. makeup, consumtion, so called high standard, shopping, "beauty" (with all the mindfuck it brings specially to girls as over/undereating, body/clothes/appearence mania.....) IT IS ABOUT SAYING "I DON"T CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT ME"!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah I never understood these products. I try to reuse water bottles, but recently I've been told that water bottles are made for only 1-2 uses because the chemical they put in the plastic is released after the 1-2 time of being used. We are forced to only use these products one time! Another thing that pisses me off is diapers. My mom put cloth diapers on me when I was a baby, so why can't we continue to use them? Families would save so much money on diapers too.
^^ that's the deal: by reusing or making homemade, we can save bucks. Which the retail/consumerist cycle is not supported as well on (now if they sell borax, vinegar, baking soda, soda ash, castile soap, there would bet a benefit) the economy needs to ger recalibrated for a rag and reuse economy as were were in the early Industrical Revolution. At least. as a beginning.
What scares me most is the suckers that buy beauty products and then dont bother to sue these companies when their wrinkles dont disappear. Its like half the worlds people are more bothered by their appearance than how much waste they put into the environment and how much extra food crop could be grown instead. Or dya think this stuff really comes from leaves that fall on to the rain forest floor
tell me something new, it's just an ongoing cycle. It won't change until something is taken or destroyed.
theres nothing wrong with gay people styrophome takes millions of years to decompose yet we still make styrophome cups that you throw away after one use.
It raises the question of, were we better off before becoming industrialized. Can man live with technology peacefully.
males in west palm scare me: I've written about three sexual offenders from there... why do y'all like babyraping so much? is it the water?
Funny you should mention the West Palmers... I just had this conversation last week with a national touring band that had a night off and spent it on the town in West Palm. From the stories and experiences of the evening, we came to the conclusion that there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with the young suburban male demographic there. Don't care to elaborate beyond that as we're getting off topic. Anyhow, most consumerism focuses on $ before ecological balance. With ever-growing fuel prices, we're facing an extended period of inflation. Just look at where the majority of our (American) consumables and wares come from. China, Mexico, California, Florida, Texas, Canada... etc. The sheer demographics may eventually force localized production unless everyone starts getting big fat raises to keep up with the all-mighty dollar that's being driven into the ground by oil prices. It's a vicious cycle. Some major industries support the infrastructure of our economy such as freight companies like FedEx or UPS not to mention the struggling airlines. Let's not take these services for granted. Think about how many large cargo vehicles you see on the roads each and every day. Recycling merely skims the surface of the longer term problems we face. The root of byproducts that are destroying our environment stems from fossil fuels. Landfills are not (yet) the issue. Not only does oil dependence drive up the cost of the evil fuel our nation is so dependent on, there are countless products we take for granted (plastics for example) that require oil as a key ingredient to manufacture. Even most "organic" farming depends on fuel one way or another. This cycle is quite literally choking us. Without a miracle energy break-through and tight laws supporting it, I'm afraid it will take a major event like a national disaster, civil unrest or maybe another major stock market crash to wake people up. Unless a longterm consequence is forced upon the masses, the shock wears off after a very short period. Bottom line... air and water are the most basic of our needs. Lead by example and never take either for granted. Ok, I'm done ranting.
You longhairs are all into everything being 'natural'. What the FUCK is natural about gayness. Since when do the animals do that?. You would think with our superior intelligence from animals that we would figure out what hole the phallus goes in.
People who have impassioned views about topics but haven't even taken the time to bother learning proper spelling and grammar scare me the most...how educated about a subject can you be if you can't even spell the content of your argument correctly? How do you possibly expect others to take your view(s) seriously if you come across as a high school flunk-out? I'm not trying to harsh on anyone in particular, but it is SO important for us to appear intelligent, educated and informed if we are to gain any respect as a movement. If you sound like a derelict when you make your pitch, people assume your arguments are weak and unfounded; conversely, if you come across as professorial, you've made people take notice and at least say to themselves, "gee, this fella/gal really knows what they're talking about", even if they end up disagreeing.
What enrages me is how long we have been getting the recycle message, and hardly anyone I know does it. Even the guy at the dump I take the recycling to encourages me to just throw it all into the dumpster, so I won't have to go to the trouble of sorting it! I'd like to just start handing out flyers to people driving their trash to the dump about the effects of their laziness.
Are you fucking kidding me? No, really, are you fucking kidding me? How can you even ask whether we were better off before technology... That statement just makes absolutely no sense... I mean I've done a shitload of drugs- I have never ever thought that! Have you ever gotten a venerial disease? That's right, antibiotics treat those, before technology... you're dripping hole would turn into a lethal lung infection! Oh, how about this... electricity? Look, I don't know what went wrong with you in-utero that produced such a myopic jingoist but... Seriously... People like you are why so many people say that Global warming was a theory created by the Greens because they hate industry.
The children will be born into a world full of ignorant peasants and poor environments with a ruling minority living the good life. You will either be poor or rich, there will be no in-between.
It scares me too that society doesn't think about what effect these disposable products are going to have on our environment. I think the biggest problem is places like walmart that sell these products for cheap, tempting middle class families to save a few bucks. Places like that also make it hard for THE PEOPLE to start small business and not go under
I work in a plastic factory, 12 hours a day 4 days a week I make 30 plastic bags per minute for various uses, the one constant about all the things i make is that 1- They serve no functional purpose (people could get by without them, and the products they carry do not need them but only use them for asthetic purposes) 2- They immidiatly get thrown in the garbage/recycle when the consumer gets them home But why do I get paid to make them, because theres HUGE markups on plastic products. Where theres money theres product, regardless of how much harm it does to the enviroment/population.
