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Sunday, 22 April 2012

GOING GREEN...


IN LIGHT OF EARTH~DAY, I THOUGHT I'D SHARE THIS E-MAIL THAT WAS SENT TO ME...


In the line at the store, the cashier told the
older woman that plastic
bags weren’t good for the environment. The
woman apologized to her and
explained, “We didn’t have the green thing
back in my day.”

That’s right, they didn’t have the green
thing in her day. Back then,
they returned their milk bottles, Coke bottles
and beer bottles to the
store. The store sent them back to the plant
to be washed and
sterilized and refilled, using the same
bottles over and over. So they
really were recycled. But they didn’t have
the green thing back in her
day.

In her day, they walked up stairs, because
they didn’t have an
escalator in every store and office building.
They walked to the
grocery store and didn’t climb into a
300-horsepower machine every time
they had to go two blocks. But she’s right.
They didn’t have the green
thing in her day.

Back then, they washed the baby’s diapers
because they didn’t have the
throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line,
not in an energy
gobbling machine burning up 220 volts – wind
and solar power really did
dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes
from their brothers or
sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But
that old lady is right,
they didn’t have the green thing back in her
day.

Back then, they 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 pizza dish, not a
screen the size of the state of Montana. In
the kitchen, they blended
and stirred by hand because they didn’t have
electric machines to do
everything for you. When they packaged a
fragile item to send in the
mail, they used wadded up newspaper to cushion
it, not Styrofoam or
plastic bubble wrap. But they didn't have the
green thing back then.

Back then, they didn’t fire up an engine and
burn gasoline just to cut
the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on
human power. They
exercised by working so they didn’t need to
go to a health club to run
on treadmills that operate on electricity. But
she’s right, they didn’t
have the green thing back then.

They drank from a fountain when they were
thirsty, instead of using a
cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a
drink of water. They
refilled pens with ink, instead of buying a
new pen, and they replaced
the razor blades in a razor instead of
throwing away the whole razor
just because the blade got dull. But they
didn’t have the green thing
back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar and kids
rode their bikes to
school or rode the school bus, instead of
turning their moms into a
24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical
outlet in a room, not an
entire bank of sockets to power a dozen
appliances. And they didn’t
need a computerized gadget to receive a signal
beamed from satellites
2,000 miles out in space in order to find the
nearest pizza joint.

But that old lady is right. They didn’t have
the green thing back in
her day.

¡HAPPY EARTH~DAY!

2 comments:

  1. Not really so long ago.. as a child of the 50's I remember all of this quite well and somehow or other we managed to survive. HOWEVER.. I like all my 'stuff' and I dont want to go back there. :>)

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