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Plan on Going Green? Might want to read this first.
Posted by moooooog35 • 10/22/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: comedy, environment, funny, global warming, green, humor
Going Green = Epic FAIL.
www.midgetmanofsteel.com/2009/10/blinding-light-of-my-anus.html
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I do not plan on going green. What nobody tells you is that it will do absolutely nothing for the environment and it costs a lot more to go green. You can go green by paying $5 for a "green" shopping bag $0.99 at Walmart for the same bag without the "go green" label on it. You can pay an extra $15 a month to your electric company and this is on top of your regular monthly bill to go green. So much more. They don't want you to know that this is not what's killing the environment. It is a way to make money. I will not personally buy anything that has anything to do with "go green." You don't even want to know how expensive in the long run the cars they want everybody to buy to go green really are. The battery in these cars cost more to replace then it would cost to fill your tank for a year and of course if they do not run with a gas engine they have to be plugged in everynight-waste of the electricity that they want you to pay extra to have (because electricity is not going green.) It is a vicious cycle to make money.-
Who's they? They frighten me. -
You don't have to buy things marketed as eco friendly to "go green". Simply reduce your consumption of natural resources, which in fact does help the planet. You don't have to purchase a reusable shopping bag, you can use over sized totes or handbags that you already own. -
Then do it smarter than that?
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The bread in our refrigerator is going green. Does that count? -
Everybody that is pushing the green including the gov. They make it sound peaches and cream. Yup they frighten me too.
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oops that was for Dane apparently it is getting too late for me to remember how reply works
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you don't have to buy all these green things to even go green. it's a money making scam. i try to be green by saving water, planting trees, not wasting food, try to eat more vegetables instead of meat and not use too much electricity -
Yes, I will. Why the hell not. I'm not afraid of change. -
Most "Go Green" blarney is either political or commercial blarney. Real green is living a conscientious, non-wasteful personal life and actually helping plant your little plot of earth. And encourage your community to do the same. Top down green smacks of Fascism. -
Paying someone else to go green for you (the utility companies and grocery stores) will always be a sucker's bet. Laurence and asianaussie have the right idea - if everyone did what they could for themselves, the effects would be large and the individual price would be small. I look for ways to produce less waste and use fewer resources but I'm not going to buy into the green hysteria and start buying things just because the manufacturers say they're green.-
Yes. Sustainable living is what it's all about.
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It's like a few years back, when all the food manufacturers started putting healty on the labels. They were healthy unless you read the ingredients and nutritional breakdowns.
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Advertising is a bullshit industry. They'll think of any marketing angle just to get products to sell.
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They are professional sheepherders. They are very good at rounding up sheeple.
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Manny Calonzo, president of the EcoWaste Coalition, offers 13 suggestions to turn the traditional Filipino observance of All Saints’ Day into “a simple, climate-friendly and toxic-free experience.”
1. Take public transportation or share a ride to the cemetery. Carpooling or taking a jeepney, bus or train can create carbon savings. Whenever applicable, walk or cycle to your destination.
2. Avoid idling your car to cut down on energy consumption and the ensuing greenhouse gas and other toxic emissions.
3. Pick clean-burning candles that do not give off black fumes or ash. Also, shun candles with metal wicks, which may contain harmful chemicals such as lead.
4. Light just enough candles to save on money and energy as well as to cut pollution. It’s the thought that counts, not the number of candles set alight and, definitely, not the dispersal of harmful byproducts.
5. Offer locally-grown fresh flowers instead of imported ones that are not only costly, but also require tons of energy to get them flown to flower shops and to you.
6. Refrain from putting flowers in plastic wraps. Plastics eventually end up clogging waterways and causing floods, injuring and killing marine animals, and poisoning communities with hazardous chemicals when burned.
7. Desist from bringing or buying excessive amounts of food and beverage to the cemetery to cut on expenses and waste.
8. Bring your own water in a reusable jug. Discarded plastic bottles add up to the country’s garbage problem.
9. Pack everything you wish to bring to the cemetery in reusable bags and baskets in lieu of single-use plastic bags and containers. Instead of plastic disposables, better use banana leaves or containers that can be reused.
10. Throw all discards into the proper recycling bins and be conscious at all times that littering in the cemetery—as elsewhere—is a no-no.
11. Bring home all your discards for reusing or recycling. Give food leftovers to pet animals or turn into compost with other biodegradable waste, and reuse or recycle the non-biodegradable discards.
12. Keep the decibel level down. Refrain from creating deafening noise from loud radios, blaring music, sing-along and constant honking of horns. The occasion calls for solemnity and prayerful demeanor.
13. Offer prayers of gratitude and remembrance to your departed loved ones. Prayers are said to be the best way of thanking and honoring the people we value and love, and they cause neither garbage nor pollution. -
If you know how to budget your expenses and clean your surrounding you can save and you can see green but save the earth none of this can do anything. all of those atomic testing, wars, garbage, experiments. they don't even making a cell battery why? oil and gasoline are highly profitable than anything else. If you can save your wife or husband turn red and think green of you. -
Read the article. Should have turned off the computer instead. -
Saving money on cemetery visits? How about skipping going to the cemetery at all, offer your remembrance from home. Messages to those in the spirit world can be transmitted from anywhere.
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