You know, I’m all for “children are our future” and all that, but I am sure am tired of kids having this sense of self-importance all because they make great tools for the left. These little self-designated morally superior snots are just annoying, and would be embarrased if they only understood that they’re just brainwashed useful idiots. At least I hope they would be. They’re usually so blinded by their own brilliance they can’t see anything but their own halos.
I just saw some of this type on “Shark Week” pontificating in all their teenage wisdom about the misunderstood, kindly shark and how we awful evil humans just need to “co-exist” with them. There’s that word again, “co-exist”. Another perfectly good word co-opted into meaningless mush by the left and these little brats who repeat things like trained parrots.
When you are old (and yes, if you are fortunate, some day you will be) you will get to tell your grandkids about how the grownups in your life sold you all down the river with lies.
These kids don’t know any better. They are regurgitating the idiocy fed to them in the state schools.
If my kid tackled me with that, my first question would be, ok, are you going to take on buying with your money the replacement bags? And are you going to wash them? And when the dog poops, how are you going to pick it up and throw it out? You figure it out, and volunteer for the extra work, and then we’ll talk.
Two problems. First, the kids memorized what their government union teachers told them to say. Second, WHERE'S the reasoning? If makes no sense. How is this going to help everybody in the universe?
What cracks me up about it is when I ask people "why no plastic bags," they say they don't break down in a landfill. So what? A lot of things don't break down. Where's the harm? In fact, isn't burying them locking up that nasty carbon? If it broke down, one of the byproducts would be CO2! Isn't that good, according to them?
Years ago some people dug into a landfill and found newspapers from years ago that were still in readable condition. They were horrified that they didn't break down. Again, so what? More CO2 not released.
Aren't some people talking about growing trees and then storing the wood so sequester the carbon?
Why don't they tell the kids to tell people not to make plastic toys, plastic calculators, plastic computers, plastic phones, plastic TVs, etc.?
Just say, "Stop using plastic and help everybody in the universe including people who are going to be alive in the future."