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Plastic or paper bags? The young cashier suggested to the much older lady (who was accepting plastic bags to bag her groceries) that she could bring her own cloth grocery bag, because plastic bags are not good for the environment and paper bags use up trees. The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked upstairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a young person of today. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to get our goat... Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much. Honesty is the best policy. |
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I believe in "Global warming" and "Climate change" caused by human. So, I incline to use "clean energy" and "reusable energy", e.g. the Sun (solar panels), the Wind (wind turbines), the Natural Gas and "Geothermal energy", ..., etc. that we can use forever. "Nuclear energy" is too dangerous. Democrats, such as Al Gore and President Obama like to use those clean and reusable energy to produce electricity. However, Republicans, such as Mitt Romney and Donald Trump like to use "Coal". Just say there are "clean coal", but when the coal miners dig the coal out, can they guarantee that no coal mine will collapse and bury miners inside?? Don't they know burning coal will cause air pollution and lung disease, emphysema?? Just look China. As the plastic or paper bags, I have been using the reusable cloth bags for the past 10+ years. More and more supermarkets and stores charge you ten cents, if you want to buy the plastic or paper bags. Honesty is the best policy.
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I received this email from my PhD Physicist friend this morning that I like to share with you. He is an atheist, Democrat, intelligent scientist, teaching some Physics lectures at an university in Hawaii as a retired professor. He is also an environment advocator. I have NEVER met him in person, but emailed with him since early November of 2009. A very smart cookie. Honesty is the best policy.
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