Earth Week
Ok I just got home and this has still been in my mind as it has been bothering me to the bone for about the past week.
So this past week was earth week, with earth day and all the save the planet talk that you could digest was on T.V. While watching this my mother has decided she is now going to be “eco friendly”. She unplugs appliances before going to bed has even went out and purchased some new appliances/fixtures for the house that are better for the environment. GREAT! That isn’t a problem at all more power to her. She is pushing it on me and I don’t mind doing the little things to help with it being eco friendly is good. This is the shit that pisses me off to no end.
I sat down the other day and caught a special she was watching on how wasteful humans are, basically. The first thing on the show talked about diapers and how wasteful we are with diapers and showed how much you will use for 1 average baby by the time they are out of diapers. They then showed you all the crude oil that is used to make that mound, then made you feel guilty for the plastic used and finally showed the trees that were chopped down to make those diapers. While I am at this point feeling horrible they bring up a little joy and say “But the solution is using reusable diapers, right?” I immediately think to myself “RIGHT!”. Then the cunt of a host says “Well you can use reusable diapers if you want to waste more that 22,000 gallons of water a year to wash them. The rest of the show continued down the formula of “Show what is used and make people feel awful. Present and option to them, but then explain that the ‘better’ option is also destroying the planet or wasteful” After an hour I officially felt like shit about humanity but mostly myself. This was nothing but scaring people into using cleaner/better/more efficient ways to dispose of things. They don’t even actually tell you it’s better or “GREAT JOB FOR DOING THIS OPTION! YOU’RE HELPING EARTH!” it was more of a “GREAT JOB CHOOSING THIS ONE TO JUST WASTE SOMETHING ELSE EQUALLY!” Every point they brought up was basically lose lose. My mom sat there and ate it with a damn spoon. Why even air something like this garbage? Is it going to tell people to do better things? Either way it made it seem like I was a horrible fucking person for drinking milk that was in a plastic container OMG AWFUL! I should buy my own cow and drink it from the utter, it’s better for earth. I am not saying that I want to destroy earth or want these wasteful ways to continue and I realize enough small contributions do add up but of all the people to use horrible propaganda, the hippies? Really?
So this past week was earth week, with earth day and all the save the planet talk that you could digest was on T.V. While watching this my mother has decided she is now going to be “eco friendly”. She unplugs appliances before going to bed has even went out and purchased some new appliances/fixtures for the house that are better for the environment. GREAT! That isn’t a problem at all more power to her. She is pushing it on me and I don’t mind doing the little things to help with it being eco friendly is good. This is the shit that pisses me off to no end.
I sat down the other day and caught a special she was watching on how wasteful humans are, basically. The first thing on the show talked about diapers and how wasteful we are with diapers and showed how much you will use for 1 average baby by the time they are out of diapers. They then showed you all the crude oil that is used to make that mound, then made you feel guilty for the plastic used and finally showed the trees that were chopped down to make those diapers. While I am at this point feeling horrible they bring up a little joy and say “But the solution is using reusable diapers, right?” I immediately think to myself “RIGHT!”. Then the cunt of a host says “Well you can use reusable diapers if you want to waste more that 22,000 gallons of water a year to wash them. The rest of the show continued down the formula of “Show what is used and make people feel awful. Present and option to them, but then explain that the ‘better’ option is also destroying the planet or wasteful” After an hour I officially felt like shit about humanity but mostly myself. This was nothing but scaring people into using cleaner/better/more efficient ways to dispose of things. They don’t even actually tell you it’s better or “GREAT JOB FOR DOING THIS OPTION! YOU’RE HELPING EARTH!” it was more of a “GREAT JOB CHOOSING THIS ONE TO JUST WASTE SOMETHING ELSE EQUALLY!” Every point they brought up was basically lose lose. My mom sat there and ate it with a damn spoon. Why even air something like this garbage? Is it going to tell people to do better things? Either way it made it seem like I was a horrible fucking person for drinking milk that was in a plastic container OMG AWFUL! I should buy my own cow and drink it from the utter, it’s better for earth. I am not saying that I want to destroy earth or want these wasteful ways to continue and I realize enough small contributions do add up but of all the people to use horrible propaganda, the hippies? Really?