That Green Thing

Vanity ^ | 28 March 2011 | Unknown

[Windflier]

A little logic and reason sure goes a long way, doesn't it?

[Oceander]

Indeed it does. That is a nice little testimonial to the wisdom of the older generation.

[libertarian27]

I miss paper bags....

[xjcsa]

Life is good.

[Windflier]

That is a nice little testimonial to the wisdom of the older generation.

Count me in that older generation. I remember when life in America was almost exactly like that, and it really wasn't all that long ago.

[Windflier]

I miss paper bags....

You can still get 'em. If you want to pay for them, that is. I did a double take, the first time I saw them on the shelf in the grocery store.

[chris_bdba]

So do I and I’m only 50.

[Windflier]

Life is good.

Yes, but how green are you? That the thing, you know.

[Windflier]

So do I and I’m only 50.

57 here. Ain't it something, how fast our whole way of life has changed? Where's my country, dude?

[goodnesswins]

They didn’t have the EPA and thousands of other NON-profits trading funds and creating rules for LIFE to tell them how to use their electricity either!!!

[MileHi]

Spot on!

“Green and Sustainable” = expensive and failure prone

[marsh2]

It was always my understanding that plastic bags were made from recycled milk jugs.

[libertarian27]

Paying for paper grocery bags? Well, I guess that makes sense - many pay for water in bottles.....who would have ever thought that one would catch on 30 years ago?

I remembered all the times in your post too and I’m in my late 40’s -ish (39++++++++)(+)

[edpc]

Back then, when they did talk about the environment, they used a fake Indian who was actually Sicilian.

[Windflier]

Paying for paper grocery bags? Well, I guess that makes sense - many pay for water in bottles.....who would have ever thought that one would catch on 30 years ago?

Well, I can remember the Sparklets trucks running all over town when I was a kid, so bottled drinking water isn't new. But, paper grocery bags? Aye, aye, aye...

[Windflier]

It was always my understanding that plastic bags were made from recycled milk jugs.

Maybe some small percentage of them are, but I'd guess that most are made from newly processed plastic stock.

[Windflier]

They didn’t have the EPA and thousands of other NON-profits trading funds and creating rules for LIFE to tell them how to use their electricity either!!!

I think this country is going to make some changes with that crap after 2012. America's irritation with the intrusion of all these government agencies is part of what got the Tea Party off the ground.

[Windflier]

Back then, when they did talk about the environment, they used a fake Indian who was actually Sicilian.

First I've ever heard that Iron Eyes Cody was really Sicilian.

Yeah, we had the "Don't Be A Litterbug" campaigns, and of course there was always Smokey the Bear. I could live with that stuff, though. Just made common sense.

[FrankR]

"But they didn't have the green thing back in her day."

We returned the bottles to get a 2-cent deposit, not to prevent some fantasy called "global warming".

Only big cities had escalators, smaller towns had very few buildings over 1-story high.

We didn't take the 300 hp machine, because very few people could even afford a car.

Most of the elites and eggheads who are radical enviromentalists are the very ones who gave us plastic bottles, bags, and throwaway razors.

If we had had those things in the 40's and 50's we would have used them just like people today.

To place jerkwad evironut fantasies in the context of 50 years ago is unrealistic...it's apples and oranges.

I was there then, and I'm here now, and today's environmentalism ideas, back then, would have gotten you labeled an alarmist and village idiot in one fell swoop.

[21twelve]

My mom’s family used to pay extra for ICE!!
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Of course - that was before they had refrigerators - just an ice box. She said when the ice man would come (once a week???) the kids would gather around, and he always made sure to be a little “messy” in cutting the block to size to fit the individual ice box. Then the kids would have some chunks of ice to enjoy on a hot day.

Imagine - no ice cold drinks, otter pops, or other frozen goodies!

She also ran out when the “rag man” came by to take people’s old rags, clothes, etc. (He would sell them to make the old rag area rugs). He may have taken tin and other stuff too. He still used a horse-drawn cart and she loved to pet the horse!