Go sent this ,I thought a good one to share, it's about us older generation and how young people suggest our generation stuffed up the planet .
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own shopping bags in future because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The cashier responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every shop and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the county of Yorkshire . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank water from a fountain or a tap when we were thirsty instead of demanding a plastic bottle flown in from another country. We accepted that a lot of food was seasonal and didn’t expect that to be bucked by flying it thousands of air miles around the world. We actually cooked food that didn’t come out of a packet, tin or plastic wrap and we could even wash our own vegetables and chop our own salad.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the tram or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mothers into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Wizard
Yes a good one. However all the things listed are trivial including the plastic shopping bag issue. The real environmental problems facing the planet are: loss of native vegetation (broad acre clearance and deforestation); chemical pollution of our atmosphere and waterways (which has a range of significant impacts including the important potential impact of climate change); and over population. The current and older generation have a lot to answer for. And I am in my 60s.
Cheers
KarlB
Wizard
A bigger problem for our environment is those pushing the enviro barrow to satisfy their own agendas and greenwashing the gullible.Originally Posted by KarlB
Yes a good one. However all the things listed are trivial including the plastic shopping bag issue. The real environmental problems facing the planet are: loss of native vegetation (broad acre clearance and deforestation); chemical pollution of our atmosphere and waterways (which has a range of significant impacts including the important potential impact of climate change); and over population. The current and older generation have a lot to answer for. And I am in my 60s.
Cheers
KarlB
Master
I do the same with my home brew beer and soft drink today. Does that make me a greenie?
ChatterBox
SubscriberIts not worth complaining ; unless your over 135 years oldyou are more likely to be a PART of the generation that invented and sold the world on the disposable everything from razors to cars from triple packaged tea bags to t.v's .
Ive been using plastic pens since kindy in the 70's and every car since the 50's with a few exceptions(like the defender/SI-IV, vw beetle)
has been designed with a limited lifespan so thats 60+ years of puchasing an item with a disposal date set in.Hell most panelbeaters are now really panel bolters as its cheaper.
So in the pursiut of more profit item life spans have been reduced, tv's used to last 20+ years if they where well made and could be fixed CHEAPLY now a big plasma will last 3-7 years at best and is cheaper to buy a new one than repair the old one, ditto microwaves, printers ,laptops etc Now who owns a majority of those companies making these good enviro decisions? Not gen x, y or z
Ba Boom and the freebie generation.
ForumSage
SupporterIt is probably sign of the fact that I was born before the middle of last century, but I can honestly claim to have seen a panelbeater repairing a badly damaged panel without using any body filler (which he called flippy flop).
I wonder how many members of AULRO have ever seen a real live panelbeater doing what they once did quite regularly.
1973 Series III LWB 1983 - 2006
1998 300 Tdi Defender Trayback 2006 - often fitted with a Trayon slide-on camper.
actually not 150 yrs old.Its not worth complaining ; unless your over 135 years old
So in the pursiut of more profit item life spans have been reduced, tv's used to last 20+ years if they where well made and could be fixed CHEAPLY now a big plasma will last 3-7 years at best and is cheaper to buy a new one than repair the old one, ditto microwaves, printers ,laptops etc Now who owns a majority of those companies making these good enviro decisions? Not gen x, y or z
Ba Boom and the freebie generation.
But I can remember the 60's.
No supermarkets, the corner store you went to for groceries, biscuits were bought from bulk biscuit tins Arnott's arrow root, Milk something and Brockoff crackers like Sao, they were weighed on balance scales with ingot weights. you took them home in a paper bag.
No refrigerators, we had an ice chest. Dad rode a push bike to work as we couldn't afford a motor car. We'd walk or catch the tram or bus. Air conditioning was something for the future.
The milkman had a horse and cart and delivered milk in glass reusable bottles. Garden fertiliser came from the milkman's horse, you just scraped of the road with your shovel and onto the rose bushes.
Bread came fresh from the Baker Boy truck they would do the street home deliveries.
Fresh Chicken's were also delivered, you just had to execute them yourself.
When you got a xmas or birthday present bought from a store, it came with minimal packaging.
Today buy a PC Game, all you get is a small CD and it's packed in a large Cornflakes type of cardboard box with heaps of filler cardboard
The carbon foot print wouldn't have been much, and no supermarkets or KFCs, Maccas etc, no over wrapped products. we didn't even get a telephone for years later, or a TV. Pass the remote was via a long cord attached to the Pye or Kreisler Black and white. TV. Plastic was in it's infancy.
Then the 70's came, plastics replaced bakelite, we were offered new gadgets and so on every centenary increased waste
Wizard
And how would that be? What damage, harm or otherwise have they done to the environment? Or are you just making a point that you don't like greenies?
Cheers
KarlB
Actually what ever happened to that singer politician , been so long I have forgotten his name. Garret some one?.... oh yeah Peter, has said boo on saving the planet for a while.
Master
haha yeah while today we are thinking of those things more and trying to do things in a greener way we still use more resources today then we did say 100 or 50 years ago.
that being said, as a young person in Western Australia I am still very angry at the way much of our virgin bush was cleared to make way for the crops and agricultural land.
money makes the world go round sadly
but here's a fun fact for you...
changing your diet can have the greatest affect on your carbon/environmental impact on our beautiful planet! have you considered becoming a vegan/vegetarian?
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