GO GREEN!! These words are so over used.. I seen a huge garbage truck with smoke billowing out of it with a huge GO GREEN sign on it..Now, what is this sign telling me to do? What does ECO FRIENDLY and GO GREEN mean to you? Do you think the world is taking heed to these words?
Some western businesses do take it to heart, others (ab)use it to their advantage. I'm not sure how the going green/eco movement is doing in other parts of the world. I thought in China they had some serious ecofriendly regulations as well so it's not all black and white it seems.
The global elitists would have you believe “Go Green” is a way to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, it's byproducts, and harmful emissions, but in reality it’s a metaphor for Soylent Green – The next and final phase of their plan for world domination :hide: Hotwater
i'm pretty fucking green. i ride my bike to work. i recycle (what good it does, i'm not sure). i hardly ever throw shit out. i'm not wasteful. but smoking weed is one of the least green things you can do, if you're smoking stuff that was grown indoor (it likely was). so much electric to grow bud. and everything i do at my job in the lab is NOT green. i throw out my body weight in plastic maybe every week or two. every business/restaurant, etc. creates so much garbage. i gotta go to work now for a few minutes. driving a car this time since it's after midnight and i'm not staying long (don't have to pay for parking) so am i green, or am i cheap. i think the latter results in the former
Some things, like recycling or splitting your garbage, only really make an impact when a lot of people are doing it but on the other hand if that is an excuse not to do it you will be sure it never change for the better I know it partly does here. Being green and cheap go well together (it mostly takes time and a little effort)
I try to be as green as possible, I recycle as much stuff as I can. I even save up my plastic grocery bags and when I get enough I stuff them into a backpack and take them to Duane Reade to recycle them. I try to use paper over plastic when I can, and I buy items made from recycled material if I can. I also sometimes look at where something was made, and would rather buy something from jersey than something from illinois if its the same thing because it uses less fuel for shipping. I don't drive a car and normally use my feet which is the most green (and costs much less green) transportation. Last time I bought disposable plates I bought bamboo plates, bamboo takes less time to grow than trees. I suppose not using disposable plates at all would be even more green, but it cuts down on the amount of dishes I have to wash so maybe that saves some water and surely some of my time. I also try to reuse things if possible for other purposes. I also try to limit my use of styrofoam. Balled up platic bags make a good alternative to packing peanuts.
this but I do agree that going green is a meaningless slogan or a clever marketing ploy a lot of the time. My landlord has these natural gas heaters installed in my house, they're actually really horrible for the air quality of the house because they're not vented to the outside but I noticed the other day when he had to replace one that the box it came in proclaimed they could help you "go green"! and could "help save the environment." They may be better than electric heat in regards to energy use but they're still going to give you bronchitis eventually. A lot of supposedly all-natural products play on this too, when in reality if you read the ingredients they're all horrible.
well that's the problem with words. people who make money love it when all they have to change are words. environment is still the main event, but people can be turned off to anything if you repeat a slogan often enough completely out of context. anything to worship money, keep people worshiping money, and not thinking about anything else but their relationships to each other and their insulation by their artifacts from anything else to do with reality.
