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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (24742)	5/29/2009 6:25:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

Such Big Brother decisions ignore the benefits of what people choose to do. It's very annoying to run out of supermarket bags. They are very useful for all sorts of things. They make silly statements "Omigosh, we have saved 1.6 million tons of oil" while ignoring the myriad factors surrounding the issue. How many millions of hours were wasted at checkouts as people bumbled around trying to pack their 'green' bags? How much breakage was there? Decades ago, we used to wash out old plastic bags and hang them on the clothesline, they were so unusual and in my ignorant youth I thought recycling was a good thing. Back in the day, bags were all paper. You should be able to figure out that washing out bags and putting them on a clothesline has a cost well above the cost of plastic supermarket bags. Banning supermarket bags is religion. They might as well ban packaging of goods. Require supermarkets to dispense marmalade to recycled jars. Apples, onions, bananas, carrots could all be stacked in together - no wrappers needed. Put the loose eggs on top being careful of course. Liquids should be dispensed from bulk to recycled customer containers. Prayers could be said at each decanting to the Gods of Anti-Packaging. Potato peel, apple peel and cores, banana skins should be returned to the supermarket for recycling back to the organic farmers who supply the bulk foods to the supermarkets. Walking barefoot should be compulsory. Clothes should be natural fibre only, with no mechanical harvesting. Have you read Ted Kaczynski's manifesto? You'd like parts of it. cyber.eserver.org Here's the Gore Quiz: bbhq.com Your illustrious leader and Ted Kaczynski have similar ideology overlap. It's interesting that David Suzuki and other Greenhouse Doomsters are also now starting to recommend violence against disbelievers, Denialists, apostates, heretics, blasphemers. Mqurice