Posted by
novelator on Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:17:18 AM
The environmental movement wants you to do your part to save the environment so you purchase reusable grocery sacks to bring again and again to your local grocery store. And what do you fill these environmentally-safe sacks with? Plastics of all sorts--drink jugs and microwave dinners, cellophane-wrapped packages of cookies and six packs of soda with plastic rings that throttle wildlife, etc and so forth.
Never once do you step back from the media hype and consider what you're actually doing by purchasing these "green" sacks.
For one, you're giving the store your hard-earned money for these reusable sacks, so the store is profiting. And you're saving the store money by not using their free sacks, thus increasing the store's profit. You're also keeping a lot of folk in China who labor to produce these "environmentally safe" sacks gainfully employed, the same China whose government has no stringent EPA requirements for their manufacturers to follow. Not only that, but you're showing everyone else standing in line without their own bag of reusable sacks that you are, indeed, a sheeple and easily led because you've bought into the idea that you can significantly reduce your carbon footprint on the earth by buying reusable grocery sacks.
Never mind the fact that your environmentally-safe reusable sacks are filled with plastics. Forget the fact that you, for all your environmental awareness, most likely drove your fossil-fuel burning vehicle to the store to use your reusable sacks. Or that no one in the environmental movement appears to be interested in asking and/or reporting on how much the Chinese manufacturers are polluting the Earth to produce your environmentally-safe sacks.
So, how green are you anyway?
Tenderfoot comes to mind--specifically, tenderfoot left holding the "bag."