I am becoming more and more convinced that green issues are a middle class indulgence and a useful bandwaggon for politicians and the like to jump on.

He is correct, though. A lot of people are pretty clueless about their impact on things despite sorting their paper, glass, and plastic. It's popular now to be green--and there is a lot of green to be made from it.

The single biggest thing that would impact my region of the world now is if they would ban those darned plastic shopping bags. They drift everywhere. I live on a creek, so see them tangled in branches after every big rain. And I'm sure they mess up the wildlife, to say nothing of the aesthetics.

I can't use that creek water to water my yard, despite having a pump to use. There is too much chemical runoff from all of the non-organic gardeners upstream, to say nothing of the other junk people dump in their yards or on open ground to avoid having to drive to the drop off point with it.

SRS