Posted on 09/24/2014 3:59:48 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Around 400,000 people marched through Manhattan yesterday to send a message to world leaders regarding the dire consequences of climate change, and the urgent, desperate necessity of enacting sweeping reforms to stop it. It appears at least 150,000 of those people tossed away their paper Starbucks cups...
From the looks of it, much of what was heaved onto the ground by activists caught up in the fervor wasn't trash at all—a healthy amount of the detritus piled in the gutters was recyclable, indicating that attendees couldn't even be bothered to stuff their spent Gatorade bottles into their bags until they located the appropriate receptacle. (Which, to be clear, is a recycling bin.) Also, the coffee cups!
Of course, the only real way to stop climate change is by overturning existing paradigms—agreements by governments to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, regulatory changes to factory farms and the cessation of cutting down virgin forests. [Editor's note: We don't have data to compare the amount of climate march trash to trash generated by other large gatherings, so an alternative headline here could also be "Massive Crowd Leaves Some Litter."] There is also the possibility that the trash wasn't left by the activists but other passersby not involved in the march, most of whom are probably agents provocateurs employed by the New York Post.
Still, it's a grim day when some of the city's most dedicated activists are blind to the impact of their own habits. Coffee cups are generally coated with plastic, which makes them neither recyclable nor compostable. Plastic cups and cans are recyclable, and letting them simply fall from your hand when you're done with them is not an acceptable means of disposal. Paper and cardboard make up over 40 percent of the solid waste sent to die in North American landfills. The square-footage of natural habitat lost making a 16-ounce paper cup with a sleeve is estimated to be .93 square-feet. In 2006, more than 6.5 million trees were cut down to make 16 billion coffee-specific paper cups for U.S. consumers, resulting in 253 million pounds of waste.
Reusable coffee cups are cheap—Starbucks sells their version for $1. Stuffing it into your backpack, purse or murse can be a pain, but any additional back problems wrought from carrying an empty mug or bottle will be nothing compared to the back pain you'll feel when you're forced to spend the rest of your life treading water.
A Department of Sanitation spokesperson said that information on the amount of trash hauled from the march route will be available in the coming days, but that crews were "assigned to clean up after the march as with any event in the City." All of the trash was removed by Monday morning.
We've inquired as to whether additional trash cans and recycling bins were made available for the march, and whether the department's clean-up efforts entailed separating recyclables. We'll update this story when we hear back.
Gross hypocrisy. Good DemocRats.
Classic!
Finally “Out of the Closet” as the Marxists they are. Berkley proved it last weekend.They are marching for POWER nothing else matters.
To paraphrase Leonardo DiCaprio: The problem of global warming has grown beyond the choices individuals make - only enacting laws to punish capitalists can fix the problem.
Every time I read about this fiasco they up the number of supposed marchers.
“..They are marching for POWER nothing else matters.”
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The only agenda of the radical left and it goes all the way to the Oval Office.
and in the heyday of the Tea Parties Rallies . . . the sites were cleaner AFTER the rally than BEFORE!!!
Same as the disgusting trash left on OUR National Mall after the inauguration of Obama.
Trash leaves trash.
Murse? What planet are these beings from?
You’re looking at it all wrong! The leftist dirtbags at this gathering were simply helping hundreds of undocumented immigrants fulfill their dream of a “better life”, giving them the chance to sweep up after the Democrat Party — which they will gratefully vote for from here everafter.
/sarc
Around 400,000 people marched through Manhattan..
\it’s getting bigger & bigger. I expect 1.5m by the end of the week.
Added Bonus: He has a Starbucks Iced Coffee in hand! *SMIRK*
in nature green living plants love all the co2 they can get.
What did one tree say to the other tree about the hippie tree-hugger?
” You notice these meat puppets aren't calling their oxygen they need a pollutant?!”
These losers have to have a cause to make them feel important. They will never amount to a hill of beans, but they’ll blame others for there stunted existence.
Well, that’s ok then, as we are all going to be treading
water for the rest of our lives...
Honestly, where do these people come from?
That reminds me of a line from a movie: “Did you hear, Alvin York captured the Kaiser!”.
More importantly, the people that attend these events prove that it is they who are immature pigs that must be supervised. Naturally, they assume everyone else are pigs just like they are and also need government to control them. The left always does this type projection.
That’s a far bigger number than the one I read.
People’s Climate March for the Globe is to support recycling and taxes on polluters, but don’t tax their coffee cups... they need it to show how bad big coffee is with cardboard coffee cups.
They don’t have to clean up anything. After all, they have the moral high ground, and after all the heavy lifting of protesting, cleaning up one’s own mess is a bit anticlimactic. Clean up is for the little people, for someone else to do.
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