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Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my earlier days.”
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day.
The older lady went on to explain:
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda 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. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.
We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store 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 diapers 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 state of Montana. We also didn't have 10 remotes to control all of our devices, we simply got our butts off of the couch and changed the channel.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline 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.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the"green thing." 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 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger 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?
That puts a real perspective on things quite well. The biggest thing that irks me about all this is that this is the world the jew made and forced upon all of us. It’s the jew screams out in pain as he strikes you on a grand and malicious scale.
Edit: rephrased
This deserves its own post.
Oh I'm not the original author of this, it's been bouncing around for at least ten years by now. I'd attribute credit to the author if he was known, but that's why I put it in quote format, to show that I was reposting this. It really makes some great points, doesn't it?
Yeah, I've read something like that before, though shorter.
You should post it in and ask if someone knows the original author (at the end).
Plastic recycling is really the scam here. Most plastics (from bottles to bags) cannot be recycled. We should be using much more glass which is very recyclable and can be made safer than before.
The TV example is a bad one. Anyone who has worked with vacuum tubes knows those old TVs sucked power. The really wasteful entertainment appliance is the cable boxes everyone uses with digital cable. Those things could run off of a tiny bit of power but somehow they are made atrociously. Worst of all, consumers can't upgrade them to a more power efficient version because they're totally controlled by the cable company. Luckily people are ditching cable and these stupid boxes in record numbers.
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