The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166646   Message #4148243
Posted By: Steve Shaw
24-Jul-22 - 04:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: climate crisis - how do we go from here?
Subject: RE: BS: climate crisis - how do we go from here?
Well I agree with that. I spent half an an hour this afternoon at the local recycling, posting cardboard, paper, plastic, glass bottles, waxed cartons and a bit of scrap metal into the multifarious separate skips. I reflected on the people who produce all this packaging junk, who force me to have all manner of storage bins at home, after which I then have to expend extremely expensive petrol to get it to the local recycling, a good few miles away. I'm supposed to wash out all my cans, cartons, bottles and the like (with washing-up detergent and expensive hot water). Then I wonder whether the operatives at the local tip don't just send a lot of it to landfill or incinerators anyway. I get home then read about film stars routinely doing seventeen-minute journeys in private jets, each trip generating more carbon than the average person generates in a year. It all makes me feel like a bit of a mug, frankly. Yeah, we should all do our bit. Then you find out that you almost might as well not bother. As I said, we are failing. I feel incredibly sorry for the next couple of generations.