[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.

[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.

[edpc]

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

[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.

[smokingfrog]

Ha. Very good.

I just wonder how much energy it took to sterilize and reuse all those bottles.

[Little Pig]

I’m betting that the flatscreens we have today are a lot more efficient than the old thermionic-valve cathode TVs from 60 years ago. Yes, they do use some energy in “off” mode, unless you actually turn the main switch off, but they also don’t take 5 minutes to warm up enough to show a picture. Those old TVs also threw off a lot of (wasted energy) heat, and there was a fair-sized orange glow on the wall behind them from all the tubes inside. And then there’s the whole radiation thing. TVs weren’t safe to sit close to until the mid-70s at least. I’ll take my 35” flattie over a 17” tube-type any day.

[Finny]

Did you write that?

It's GREAT! So totally true!

[NTHockey]

The cashier was totally out of line. My response probably would have been: “Who cares, I don’t have that may years left.”/s

[Jack of all Trades]

Here's today's green thing:

Green on the outside. Commie red on the inside.