http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116595/valentines-day-environmental-travesty?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=3848164
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Reason is no match for emotion, of course, so it's no surprise that the dead-tree greeting-card industry continues to thrive. Sentimental pastimes die hard, and greeting cards aren't Superfund sites. Still, the continued survival of the greeting-card tradition neatly underscores why it's so difficult to affect far bigger environmental change. At the very least, it suggests people are being less than honest when they tell pollsters they're interested in making environmental tweaks in their lives, even tweaks that are easy and cheap. It's hard to believe large percentages of Americans will abide a stiff carbon tax when they're not willing to stop using throw-away pieces of shiny cardboard to send their love notes.
Do the right thing today. Stay home. Turn the lights off. Stay away from the phone and computer. Give the earth a Valentines day.
I think the author of the article was trying to make a point tinged with folly and farce, summed up best by the last few lines....
"Literally as I started writing this paragraph, a message flashed onto my computer screen. It was from my 10-year-old daughter. Her request: That, on my way home from work, I stop at the store and buy her a box of Valentine's cards to hand out to her classmates at school. I laughed. And then I did what any upstanding father would do when faced with a conflict between the good of the environment and the consumerist expectations of his daughter: I bought her the cards."
Not sure anyone has ever posted this, but it is funny.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/13-worst-predictions-from-earth-day-april-22-1970#.U13yfPm-2m4
Quote from: guido911 on April 28, 2014, 01:38:10 AM
Not sure anyone has ever posted this, but it is funny.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/13-worst-predictions-from-earth-day-april-22-1970#.U13yfPm-2m4
Sad and funny lol.
The environmental movement is getting stronger every day. Don't listen to gaspar and newrepublic.
The rivers in America are cleaner than they have ever been in my lifetime. Ozone levels are down across America. Recycling tonnage is up in paper, plastic and metals. Americans will plant more trees this year than in any in the last 20.
Solar technology is becoming affordable. Residential water usage is decreasing because of newer technology. The new refrigerator uses half the energy of the ones built just eight years ago. New cars are more fuel efficient or are becoming powered by alternative means.
There will be a shift in our economic power soon to make the companies that are green more powerful the ones to work for and invest in.
Don't believe me. Be a dinosaur. A million of years from now you can be used for something more than making plastic bottles.
CO2 continues to climb rather dramatically....
http://co2now.org/
Otherwise, it looks like very good news!! Happy, Happy, Happy!!
http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/ozone.html
At least most the rivers don't burn now when you drop a match in them!! That's a good thing! And I am getting ready to go on a tree planting binge!! I hope to soon have room for 50 to 60 new ones!! Half or more will be dwarf fruit trees, but I am gonna plant some Burr oaks, and try to get hold of 4 American Chestnut seeds - Restoration Chestnut 1.0!! I bet they will be good companions to the Burrs.
http://www.acf.org/
Quote from: RecycleMichael on April 28, 2014, 11:18:50 AM
The environmental movement is getting stronger every day. Don't listen to gaspar and newrepublic.
The rivers in America are cleaner than they have ever been in my lifetime. Ozone levels are down across America. Recycling tonnage is up in paper, plastic and metals. Americans will plant more trees this year than in any in the last 20.
Solar technology is becoming affordable. Residential water usage is decreasing because of newer technology. The new refrigerator uses half the energy of the ones built just eight years ago. New cars are more fuel efficient or are becoming powered by alternative means.
There will be a shift in our economic power soon to make the companies that are green more powerful the ones to work for and invest in.
Don't believe me. Be a dinosaur. A million of years from now you can be used for something more than making plastic bottles.
China, India, Russia, et. al. please pick up the white courtesy phone. But otherwise, I think reading an objective, unbiased opinion about the status of the environmental movement is a good thing... :P Still, good to read about progress.