If you love the earth so much then why do you aim so low? Do you guys really believe refusing plastic bags at the grocery store will even make a difference? If you do then you’re delusional. Human beings are self-destructive by nature. Refusing a bag wont do shit for as long as there are thousands of nukes laying around on this planet. If you wanna make the Earth a “Greener place” then you’re better off planting a shit ton of trees and plants in your backyard. But simply refusing to use plastic bags doesn’t actually solve jack shit. You yourselves know you’re in the minority and humans are selfish. You can’t control the masses by simply calling out Tom who uses plastic bags because Tom at your grocery store don’t give a shit. Time is money and Tom is all about not wasting time. So Tom continues using plastic bags despite your disliking in his actions. Tom is just an example by the way. But he’s an example of the majority. For as long as the plastic bag users are the majority. Your effort to convert society into “anti-plastic” types is pointless. If you’re so caring for the environment then quit driving, quit walking on grass, quit eating vegetation. Heck just quit living in the modern world while you’re at it but good luck with that. I’m all for protecting the environment but you tree huggers really gotta change your aim because it aint working. Change up your tactics or something. Find a real opening in the system where can take an effective jab. But refusing plastic bags is like missing the target on a dart board by 5 feet which means it didn’t even hit the board. Its also comparable to throwing pebbles at an enemy tank. It just aint gonna work. You gotta bring out that rocket launcher. You feel me?
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As inane as it may be to humor this discussion, my mother takes her own bags to the grocery store. Figuring she goes an average of once per week and would otherwise use about 15 bags per trip, every year she avoids wasting around 800 bags per year. If She convinced 5 neighbors to do the same they collectively may safe about 4000 plastic bags per year. Assuming each bag weighs about 5 grams those 5 people would avoid wasting 44lbs of plastic each year. If they each did this for the next 50 years, by this i mean reuse recycled fabric bags, they (these 5 people) would avoid the wastage of 2200lbs of plastic, or about 1 ton, for doing absolutely nothing.
I think you were just ranting but i am a combative person for no reason so there.
I use my own bags too. And I am many things but I’m not delusional.
Thanks for saving me the effort of pointing out the “chain reaction”, or snowball effect, Agentq. One bag doesn’t make that much of a difference, but millions do. Should be pretty obvious.
Can you imagine working at one of the factories that make those plastic bags? God. Every day, 8, 10, 12, 14, maybe 16 hours of non-stop production of crap that you know will immediately get thrown away because of how cheap and useless it is in reality. That must be insanely degrading. I dunno how people do it. I guess if you’re really hard up and it’s the only job you can find, it’s what you have to do, but it’s unnecessary. In a more reasonable world, nobody would have to spend any time making pointless garbage for the garbage patch in the Pacific. We only tolerate it because it’s cheap and convenient. Maybe that’s the problem with society at large – we value cheap and convenient things more than expensive, time-consuming things.