I just wanted to share some feelings about
the environment. I noticed early this year
that I started avoiding news about global
warming because it makes me depressed.
Then it turned into a real emotional
problem for me and has an implicit effect
upon how I feel in general. I'm depressed
that the world is slowly going down the
drain. The politicians as well as citizens
are not doing enough. I sometimes go to a
secound cup cafe around the corner and I
notice most people drink out of paper
cups. Why? They're not going outside with
them. People complain about the
politicians that they don't do enough. But
it is the people that elect that kind of
politicians that are partly to blame.
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Fairy Godmother
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Hi Posted: 01-25-08 20:44pm
Snap out of it man and live in the real
world............Lve each day as if it
were your last...............you can not
get time back and here you go wasting it
on sweating about global warming and
incredibly politics...... Paper cups is
hte least of my worries. Yes, we are in a
water drought here and I do everythign in
my power to conserve the water and energy
we are provided.....but I am NOT gonna get
my panties in a wad and gripe and groan
and complain...becasue it only makes you
bitter......Try to find something positive
everyday, I try every hour....egativity
eats away at you. I guess until you face
deaths doors, you can't honestly
appreciate life. I wake up every morning
and I thank God I am alive and thank him
for the ability to feel, smell,see, hear
and please help me to reach out to someone
who may need a helping hand....a smile, a
hug, a hello.......Depression will steal
your life away from you if YOU allow
it........and it has taken far too much of
my time.....and it AINT" gonna get
anymore! Make your environment a good
place..........its up to you!
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Philo
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Posted: 01-26-08 13:28pm
Some of the most so-called "positive"
people are the most wasteful. They, too,
usually believe that they were put on this
Earth by God to use it up. You have
probably never been in a beautiful forest
hundreds of years old and then in a
clearcut to compare it too. This is where
your paper cups come from.
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Galaxy
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Posted: 01-26-08 19:33pm
Succinct as ever, Philo!
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Fairy Godmother
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For you info Posted: 01-26-08 20:13pm
I live in the middle of 44 acres (forest
in which I own) and yes I know what paper
companies can do/rape land for the timber.
Thats why I refuse to sell for any price.
I DO NOT USE paperproducts. I use real
plates, real linen napkins and real
silverware.........Bout hte only wasteful
product is toliet paper and I make damend
sure its fomr recycled paper. I only have
5 bags of garbage a year......Everything
else I RECYCLE. I recycle things to keep
them from going ot a landfill by donating
them. I was put on this earth to try to
make it a betterplace before I leave it. I
own my own property, I own my own house,
well and septic system and I use/reuse
things over and over to help save the
environment. I thry to think ofways to
keep this earth a beautiful place for
future generations. I have 22 bird feeders
and 6 birdbaths. There are deer that run
freely through my yard, opossum, raccoon
and an occasional black
bear.........Positive thinking is thinking
ahead about not wasting what we were
blessed with. Not everyone thinks in these
terms and I really feel for those who are
ignorant enough to not give a rats
ass...........I take my own bag to hte
grocery store and I will not buy unless
its in a recycled/recyclable
container............Bet you don't wash
out sandwich bags or baggies and use them
until you can't use them anymore.........I
bet you don't reuse bread bags or take the
last slivers of soap and cook them down to
make a useable bar.................don't
preach to me about positive and being
thrifty and trying to save waht beauty in
this planet we have left. And I am
financially secure...sure I could use it
and chunk it and fill up a land fill
andsay the hell with the
forrest..................But thats not me!
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Philo
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Posted: 01-26-08 21:07pm
Hmmm... Are you bipolar? Because your 2
posts on this topic don't seem to match.
In the first one you're attacking me for
worrying and being emotional about the
planet, in the second you're the most
environmental person ever. In any case
kudos on your green behaviour.