this sinner
this sinner says before you go “green” you need to acknowledge how guilty you are. it’s been getting on my nerves, the tacky green movement. don’t get me wrong; i fully support anyone who wants to make some personal changes to decrease their ecological footprint. it’s when people start acting like they deserve a cookie for recycling that bothers me. just take the time to understand the predicament. and that we are all *obligated* to do something about it. and even when we do, it’s not enough. i feel like we need to be a little more somber when it comes to the business of rehabilitating our energy consuming ways.
you should be a happy person, but you should also realize that you are a contributor to the problem. capisce?
think it through before you go labeling me as the official biggest meany head ever. i took an ethics class last semester and it shocked me that some people (not all, granted) didn’t think the world’s problems were their problems. that they earned their material goods. that they deserved the things they had and their position in the world, in life. deserve? are you kidding me? say it, just say it. you know you don’t deserve anything. face the reality that you were blessed and you did nothing worthwhile to deserve “it” whatever “it” is- you deserve nothing and are given so much. i’m not asking that we beat ourselves up over our positions in life, merely that we give credit where credit is due.
February 29th, 2008 at 12:20 am
what gets me is how unacceptable it is to “greenies” that i don’t give it 100%. as an example, i still need my bounty paper towels and my charmin bathroom tissue. could i buy paper towels and bathroom tissue made from recycled fibers? sure. but the quality is lower and the price (for a family of eight) is much, much higher. so i’ll do what i can, you do what you can, and together it’ll hopefully make a difference.