Originally Posted by
JDerrida
Blame the older generation again, when it's today's throwaway society, must have with immediacy, must have anything from anywhere in the world, on their plate now.
We used to repair virtually all electrical goods. Now if it's more than 3 years old. Throw it away and get a new one.
The proliferation of plastic bags is as a direct result of growth in supermarkets. The same supermarkets that feed the gullible that they are doing their bit for the planet. The same supermarkets that will get cheaper and cheaper produce from aroubd the world, often creating the deforestation and replacement with palm trees for all of the crap that we eat in the West. The same supermarkets that have helped increase a lot of our societal problems by selling cheap booze. All of the packaging for multi packs or anything, when they dupe people into buying so much food that we throw a large percentage of it away.
Disposable nappies because mum's are far too busy now. Yet somehow mum's managed with towelling nappies in the past when having a washing machine was a luxury.
A generation or two ago, people would buy from their local grocers who would get most of their produce locally, same with butchers.
People would buy the quantity they needed, not what some faceless Tesco computer generated knowledge of every purchase you ever bought, tells you to buy.
There are so many more cars on the roads than ever before, there are more flights anywhere in the world than ever before.
There are so many great things with what is happening today, but sometimes more than a little introspection will go a long way.
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