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GREEN IS THE NEW GREY
Distrust all the hype about "Green" anything. The things one needs to do to reduce waste are quite simple:
skip bottled water, or at least reuse your bottle three times (the "leaching" is such a joke. The thing had water before you used it. What makes it dangerous after one use? However- the taste will change if left in a hot car for a day. Dump the H20 on the grass and refill.)
2. Rain Water Barrels if you have plants.
3. Vermiform composting for the fun of it.
4. Avoid dousing your lawns with pesticides. You kill all the good stuff, too.
5. Try to lump all your trips. So if you have to get groceries, hit the post office, too. Wait until one begets the other.
Okay. That's it.
The hype is so bad I began to think about other ways I could conserve energy. And then it got so crippling that the rational thing to do is absolutely nothing. Don't exert any energy. Don't work out- you'll need to eat more. Accept what's geographically closest to you for employment.
And it got me to thinking the messed up thing. The people who care sacrifice. The people who don't care point to those that do and proclaim "They're dying for my sinnin'. It's okay to drive this SUV to pick up my mail." Because some is saving, they go on spending.
Having bought into the "Slacker" argument that you will earn less money than your parents and your college degree is worthless, well, I settled for what I could get rather than what I wanted. What was the point? It was all failure- every periodical is sounding the alarm. Only it was a false alarm. What happened? Dot com boom and bust.
Thanks Fast Co. magazine for changing the way we work. Now everyone's REALLY broke.
Rather than feel guilty about PRINTING ZINES and destroying the environment in the process, well, disregard it. The internet is all fine and good, but a zine readership relies on paper and portability. One zine editor's excesses do not rival an hour in an office setting. Use the postage service for deliveries. Quit hating on the very things that made communication possible before the dawn of widespread internet.
There is no conspiracy theory here. Yet, all this "green" talk is far from revolutionary. It's a cyclical trend that failed in the 70's, failed in the 80's, failed in the 90's... Why? Because the mantle is held by those who care, while the REAL decisions that destroy the environment are made by the ambitious and ruthless. Every bit counts, of course. Just to self sacrifice to give some jerk off more credits to burn.
Distrust all the hype about "Green" anything. The things one needs to do to reduce waste are quite simple:
skip bottled water, or at least reuse your bottle three times (the "leaching" is such a joke. The thing had water before you used it. What makes it dangerous after one use? However- the taste will change if left in a hot car for a day. Dump the H20 on the grass and refill.)
2. Rain Water Barrels if you have plants.
3. Vermiform composting for the fun of it.
4. Avoid dousing your lawns with pesticides. You kill all the good stuff, too.
5. Try to lump all your trips. So if you have to get groceries, hit the post office, too. Wait until one begets the other.
Okay. That's it.
The hype is so bad I began to think about other ways I could conserve energy. And then it got so crippling that the rational thing to do is absolutely nothing. Don't exert any energy. Don't work out- you'll need to eat more. Accept what's geographically closest to you for employment.
And it got me to thinking the messed up thing. The people who care sacrifice. The people who don't care point to those that do and proclaim "They're dying for my sinnin'. It's okay to drive this SUV to pick up my mail." Because some is saving, they go on spending.
Having bought into the "Slacker" argument that you will earn less money than your parents and your college degree is worthless, well, I settled for what I could get rather than what I wanted. What was the point? It was all failure- every periodical is sounding the alarm. Only it was a false alarm. What happened? Dot com boom and bust.
Thanks Fast Co. magazine for changing the way we work. Now everyone's REALLY broke.
Rather than feel guilty about PRINTING ZINES and destroying the environment in the process, well, disregard it. The internet is all fine and good, but a zine readership relies on paper and portability. One zine editor's excesses do not rival an hour in an office setting. Use the postage service for deliveries. Quit hating on the very things that made communication possible before the dawn of widespread internet.
There is no conspiracy theory here. Yet, all this "green" talk is far from revolutionary. It's a cyclical trend that failed in the 70's, failed in the 80's, failed in the 90's... Why? Because the mantle is held by those who care, while the REAL decisions that destroy the environment are made by the ambitious and ruthless. Every bit counts, of course. Just to self sacrifice to give some jerk off more credits to burn.
posted by AET at
10/15/2007 05:24:00 PM
2 Comments:
So is Orlandont going to be a green metropolis, or a grey one? I mean, you have worm action in su casa, no?
Si! I have the worm action in the house, the rain barrels outside (worms will die if exposed to chlorinated H20). Trying to grow the container garden, which is a fancy way to say I got plants in pots.
The sentiment I was trying to express was simply this: We are approaching a time of rations. It's those that should do the most that do the least because they feel their burden is being carried others. There's so much waste with any business, and yet, if you're starting up a business, for some reason you're made to feel that you have to redeem all the earlier f-ups they cashed out.
Orlandont refuses to pay for the sins of the stewards of industry. And we won't be made to feel guilty for this refusal. It's their mess. Clean it up their damn selves.
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