The Plastic Continent

[Sage]

You think Jack is wrong. I think he's being realistic. Good luck going a week without using anything that doesn't in some way incorporate plastic - packaging included.

I'm not saying we shouldn't do our part and help save the world, but ultimately I think your typical environmentalist activist is the worst kind of hypocrite. So many 'green' alternatives are provably worse than the status quo, but more importantly, these are the kind of people who make a big stink that there's this problem in the ocean (or wherever) and then don't bother doing anything to rectify it.

If you only care enough to complain about the problem, you don't actually care. Unless you've actually gone out of your way to make a difference, get off your pedestal.

Your plastic bag thing is a good example of realistic environmental protection, Kaden. Easy to do and there's real incentive to do it. I'm all for something like that. Still, I'm unimpressed by mere suggestions. It could be the best idea ever and means nothing if nobody follows through. Not that I expect you to convince a supermarket chain or anything, but... yeah. Ultimately you've made a moot point since neither you nor anyone I know of is making the effort to make something like that a reality.